Robotropolis

This movie explicitly alarmed me for the wrong attempt in introducing technology and robots in a hypothetic future where big bosses control the globe.

The idea and plot is definitely nice.

At the beginning, I was thinking that the idea of showing the facts of the disaster like it would be sitting at home in front of TV was original, because (you must admit it), that is how you would leave a disaster that is far from your house.

However, the overall result is absolutely below the expectations and it makes me thinking that there is nobody controlling the quality of a movie before it is actually released.

More than that, I am very surprised actors in such a movie would be satisfied about themselves, about the words they were asked to say, and dialogs in general.

I understand there could be also budget reasons, but I saw many movies where the budget limitations do not prevent the movie to have a good soundtrack, music and dialogs.

Finally, for who thinks that famous actors make a movie successful, it is not true. With such dialogs and direction, even Bruce Willis would have appeared as inadequate in such movie.

Our children in the future will probably see a robot in every movie, but it will not be a robot to make a nice movie.

The robot cgi in some places looked good, then bad. The overall solution was decent but, it wasn't very action packed or exciting. There were a lot of robots but, I wanted to see more get destroyed or shot/blown up. If the robots were damaged, the action would not be shown or it would be in the robots vision. And the cliffhanger at the end was very poor.

I guess I am not critic enough to slam a movie I haven't even watched like other "reviewers" of this film, so I can tell you I watched all of Robotropolis; not to look for things to gripe about but to take it on its own merits and just have some fun. It's about robots going berserk and killing people - and that is what happens. The CG design and integration into the live action was pretty good, the locations were unusual and interesting, the action kept up a good pace, and it didn't get excessively grisly, though there is some moderately graphic unpleasantness. There were occasional flashes of wit in the dialog and a little inventive camera-work in the chase scenes, but in the end it's a robot rampage movie. Sometimes it's going to be kind of silly. If that's not what you want in a movie, don't watch it. I found it adequately entertaining, it kept my interest and I don't feel I was cheated of my time as I sometimes have with flashier, more expensive movies. Just a decent B movie. Comparisons, they say, are odious and taking it for what it is, not what I think it should have been instead, I think everyone involved did a pretty good job. Some things are just for fun and I liked this fine.

I do love all things sci-fi, and I've been known to tolerate some fairly bad sci-fi B movies, but this was well and truly awful. No plot to speak of or character development, badly written and some pretty terrible acting to boot. It was almost as if someone stumbled upon a child's short story and decided to run with it as a script.

It opens with a rescue/recovery type scene which piqued my curiosity and promised something perhaps more interesting and in-depth to come. Unfortunately the opening scene is arguably the high point of the movie. What came after was just a jumble of badly acted live reporting scenes & interviews with a few chases thrown in later on, but overall nothing anyone will not have seen done better in other movies. Trying to write a summary of this movie is actually incredibly difficult as nothing of note actually happened in it.

I honestly don't know how or why I sat thru this until the end.

You have been warned!!!

What if in a not so distant future, robots become more or less the entire workforce of society? Sure, this idea has been presented before, and many "robots turn against humans" movies/stories are out there, but what if you present it in such a deadpan amusing way with the least talented actors you can find and let the idea fall on it's face the second it gets started. That is what you have here. So the robots turn on the humans for no apparent reason and start killing everyone, so the news crew that was filming the first murder must run for their lives (where are they going? good question). Back to the crew, this is by far the highlight of this movie, the presentation of the news is so damn funny, i could care less if it was intentionally made that way or not, it is pure comedy gold. Absolutely saves this movie from some REALLY low numbers since every other aspect of the movie stinks. So, run they will, chase the robots will, some die, some don't, the end. Except for the robots who make it to the sequel (it isn't a sequel at all, just a strange cameo type role in "Battle of the Damned" (see other review)Bad, yes but in a good B-budget way. You will laugh, trust me and it is nice and short, which helps. 3.9/10 +3 for the laughs, .9 for the movie outside of that.