Atlantic Rim

Another Asylum cash-in on a summer blockbuster. Like they did with "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies" just in time before the release of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" or "I am Omega" as "I am Legend" came out, so again they do it with "Atlantic Rim" in the time of "Pacific Rim".

It is just shameful, isn't it? But still, you know what you get with the productions and movies spewed out by The Asylum. Lower budget version of potential blockbusters, with failing dialogue and even worse CGI effects.

However, I will say that in the more recent time, The Asylum has started to post more money into the CGI effects, and it is paying off. The effects in "Atlantic Rim" were actually quite alright. Though the movie was just suffering from being a cheap knock off of "Pacific Rim".

The storyline in this movie requires no brain activity, just switch into auto-pilot and watch the movie as the three good guys in their mecha armor suits beat up some colossus aquatic monster that came from God knows where.

As for the dialogue in the movie, well it was bad, really bad. I have never heard soldiers talk or communicate in the way that they did in this movie. And some of the things they say was just downright embarrassing to witness.

And the acting in the movie was equally bad. Steven Marlow (playing Sheldon Geise) looked like he had a bad case of diarrhea, while Graham Greene (playing Admiral Hadley) was like a drone totally devoid of emotions at all. And David Chokachi (playing Red) looked like he was trying to do a reenactment of "American Ninja: The Musical" - if there was such a thing.

This is not one of the better movies to make it out of The Asylum's drawing board, not even by a long shot. Everything here was rushed and seemed to be half-hearted. If you are going to copy something and cash in on something, at least do it properly.

For a Sci-Fi movie, then "Atlantic Rim" was a really plain and below mediocre experience. Although I have seen a lot, and I do mean a lot, of questionable and low-budget movies, then "Atlantic Rim" is not the worst amongst those movie, but it is up there on the high ends of the scale.

I have not been left so fulfilled and in such a philosophical stupor by a film for a very long time.

Once you get past the horrendously mid-level acting, the script is so well written I actually haemorrhaged blood into my bladder. With no less than 5 B-movie stereotypes per 10lines of dialogue.

The camera work leaves nothing to be desired at any stage.

With a laugh a minute this film leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling to your very core.

The ever present joy of these wonderful pieces cack is that they can't afford to employ many people so, you have minimal credits to sit through whilst waiting for the non-existent after credit scene that doesn't set up the non-existent sequel.

10/10 would not recommend.

Is this movie a school project? Well they don't deserve a high grade, I know of 7 year old that make better flicks than this whole movie.

Acting is non-existent. Dialogues are dumb. CGI is terrible, you can do better with a free online 3D graphic software. Sometimes you can even "see" that what they are showing you is overlay on top of another image. Youtube lamers do better jobs than this. There is no logic in the way the movie goes. Some scenes are even inverted; certain scenes comes before the actual action happened. If military would be like these people we would all be Germans right now.

So many things in this movie make no sense that I cannot even start listing them, it would take too many pages.

This is a big waste of time.

........BA BOOM!!!!! Thing's gone."

Entire cast succeeded in never connecting with a high five, low five, fist bump, hand shake or any other celebratory hand or body gesture. Solid one star acting effort by all, but additional star for consistently bad from start to finish.

This movie is utterly dreadful, although that is the precise point of these 'mockbusters'. My flatmate and I watch a s**t movie every other Sunday - we call it "S**t Movie Sunday." This one didn't disappoint. The highlights of this movie (i.e. the most 's**t' parts) are as follows:

The moment when a 6-second clip of a jet flying across a sunset was re-used 5 times in a 10 minute action sequence.

The 'Love Triangle' which lasts about 21 seconds.

A homeless guy getting jumped in an alleyway by the main characters for no apparent reason.

This movie is absolutely dreadful... please watch it at your own risk.