2025 Armageddon

Asylum has quite a reputation for putting out schlock movies that are close to imitating real movies but not as good. The acting can be terrible, the writing almost always is but you know what you're getting when you see 'Asylum'. THIS MOVIE however firmly puts tongue in cheek and makes fun of other Asylum movies by having aliens recreate the monsters from Asylum movies and attacking earth. It's the closest thing Asylum has made to a Sharknado movie. In fact, one of the most hilarious parts is when a megalodon tosses the six headed shark into the blades of a helicopter you can't help but laugh.

The acting in this one is actually pretty good, and the writing is much better than I've come to expect from Asylum. In fact, the guy playing 'Actor' needs to be brought back in more movies because he just keeps you laughing every scene he's in. This is probably the first Asylum movie that I recommend people watch. Worth the time.

Almost 10 minutes near the beginning developing characters I can't recall the names of? Asylum! Thinking you're the Bard? It timed out at 00:08:18 of non-monster/alien spaceship footage; enough to make me almost give up and ask, "Is this truly an Asylum movie?"

I'm glad I hung on. It delivered. Pure "cr*ppy monster movies" (their script, verbatim) of the expected studio signature, where the plot holes require 20m planks to traverse, the self-deprecation of the studio's reputation for pure schlock, the deep investment in their known tropes of family reunification, numerous camara angles within each scene to capture each emotional wince delivered from their stellar cast, and the total absurdity of the story arc. And hats off to the steady camerapersons for mimicking the currently popular stylistic choice of handheld over boom or trolley-based filming, while still holding focus on characters tight enough to reduce nausea to the viewer; not that the wizards at the studio didn't reveal their competency with some very professional camera work slipped in throughout the roller coaster montage of mashups from previous Asylum classics.

But seriously, how the heck did The president survive the helicopter crash, his LtC daughter survive a face off with a 100m long piranha, and his doctor daughter survive an alien spaceship crash? Such mysteries, if ever filmed, did not make the final cut, and are left to the viewer's imagination.

Torn between rating this a 2 or a 10, I go for the 2 in hopes of qualifying it for future selection by MST3K. Such film must be remembered.

This film starts in 2006, the jumps forward 25 years. That makes it set in 2031. NOT 2025. I doubt gis was deliberate, The Asylum don't care that much.

Over all this is an average Asylum film. Not as good as the first Sharknado or Methgator, but still watchable. The performances are what you'd expect from a movie of this caliber. No one os going to win an oscar, and the special effects are a lttle lacking.

At least the know how to take the piss out of them selves. There are a lot of tongue in cheek Aslyum jokes here.

If you enoy the Asylum films you'll enjoy this. Nothing new but it does what it says on the poster.