Atlantic Rim

I got duped and started watching this believing it was the blockbuster "Pacific Rim". It was an impressive experience, my first exposure to a "mockbuster". To my defence, I quickly realized that I was not watching the real thing, so what the heck was I watching? I just couldn't believe that there was a market for this, so I came up with a few theories: * internet spoof: a bunch of movie buffs enjoy recreating scene-by-scene a blockbuster with intentionally minimalist SFX for release on YouTube * film school project: a bunch of students set out to recreate a multi-million blockbuster as quickly and inexpensively as possible, in order to learn the ropes What I finally settled on, was that I was watching an animated storyboard, i. e. a filmed first draft of the original movie script. I had to admire the actors for acting their hearts out, almost like in a real movie, only much more hammy. I sat transfixed through half of the movie. Never in the world, though, would I have suspected that this was an actual inferior copy of the original, made to part suckers from their money. Who would go back to a rental place that had fooled them once?

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.

Michael Scott's movie "Threat Level Midnight" was probably better than this pile of garbage.

From Oscar award to the only explanation being Alzheimer's or absolute rock-bottom desperation for a paycheck.

Don't know what a "mockbuster" is? Watch Pacific rim then watch this. Your education is complete. Oedipus would gouge his eyes out again. You could hit yourself in the face with a hammer and your time would be better spent than if you whatch this. Even worse than Robot Jox...

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.