Armstrong

I watched the whole thing. Don't know what to say. Definitely could and should have been better.

It is Lauren's first night as an EMT. Racing to an emergency. The EMT team runs into a man. Turns out he is in the process of thwarting an evil cabal (the fifth sun) from dispatching millions of people and bringing the end of the world.

Naturedly they cannot help themselves support his reckless cause. So, the mild-mannered EMTs enjoy the perks of being shot at, chased, and maybe worse.

We go along for the ride and kibitz out loud. Will they survive for the sequel?

The acting was good. However, you have to stretch your imagination that all this action can take place and still be under the radar of the authorities.

This is what happens when a director can't decide whether to make an action movie or a morality tale, and this waste of an hour-and-a-half of your life manages to fail miserably at both.

I'm not quite sure how the other reviewers got to the scores they did on this movie. I managed about 15 minutes before the acting became so painfully bad that I had to turn the movie off.

On paper it has a really interesting and potentially great story line and I get it's budget however that doesn't mean to say it has to be low quality.

The first thing I take issue with is the rookie EMT. Would somebody with as nervous disposition as hers really be allowed out on the streets to care for the public. I get that she is a recovering drug user but surely she would need to be somewhat more recovered to take on this job? She was like a rabbit caught in the headlights mumbling along repeating orders and acting like she never had any training.

The angry veteran was just as bad. I can see this kind of character fitting in with a rookie cop veteran cop scenario. Why is the guy so angry and why does he take it out on the new girl?

Now we come to the superhero. This guys acting was pretty rigid and he lacked charisma in epic proportions. Now I'm sure if I gave this film a chance it may prove to be something semi worthwhile however if it fails to grab me in the first 20 minutes then I don't see why I should waste my time. With a bigger budget and better acting this movie could be really good, it just takes itself way to seriously.

I started watching with no real hope for this film. While it is not the best movie out there by a long shot, it kept me entertained for the evening. The action is a bit slow in places, but it is still worth the wait.

The characters are, perhaps, somwhat clichéd - the rookie EMT, the sour veteran EMT and an injured super-hero - but this doesn't detract from the telling of the story.

The SFX and prosthetics were well realised and nothing was glaringly out of place within the storyline. Indeed, the entire movie requires little effort to enable the suspension of disbelief, and nothing in the presentation really damages that.

Sadly, the scene at the end, while opening the way for a sequel, has virtually no explanation - it just IS.