Age of Extinction

Interesting in that it makes you think about why it was so bad and other films are so good. It seems to me that the screenplay was the main problem as it could have been a hilarious spoof with a good writer, in which case the amateurish production values, direction and photography would be largely irrelevant or even help it.

The best part was seeing Robert Picardo from Star Trek: Voyager where he did a great job as The Doctor, while the worst part was seeing him in such a poor film. Picardo had an unintentionally funny line: "We're being told, from the sheer size of it, on impact, nothing will live." I and my friend burst out laughing. How did he keep a straight face?

From the acting, the dialogue, the plot and the laughable the SpecialFX (that look as though they were done at a cost of $189.00) this is quite possibly the worst film I have ever seen. There is nothing that redeems this movie on any level.

Was it made as a tax dodge? By people who think the public is even dumber than a box of rocks? By a middle school student with learning difficulties? By drunken porn producers looking to go mainstream? I don't know, but what I do know is that this is worse than anything I've seen in over 50 years of movie viewing.

Within the first 10 minutes you'll feel as though you've seen this movie before, or at least the movie plot it was based on. And that movie was a big-budget Hollywood dud!

Go watch some youtube videos of goats instead of this cinematic tour de garbage. Trust me, you'll thank me and be much better off.

There are many bad movies and then there is this film. You can tell that some of the actors tried to justify their participation for themselves, whilst being in front of the camera. I wonder what the auditions must have been like...

The plot is riddled with holes and the main hero character has a nonsensical story arc to follow along the way. Dialogue is so bad it hurts!

Some of the costumes actually look halfway decent, given the low budget of the production. And while the location sets are not bad looking and set the tone for the action well, the production was simply lazy and did not prepare them at all. For instance there is a scene later in the film where the hero and his comrades first set foot on an alien world. While the scenery looks interesting and the trees and plants have all been made to look otherworldly by giving them weird colors in post production, the illusion only lasts for a few seconds at most. Why? Well, they forgot to remove the educational signs sticking out of the ground in front of every freaking plant they walk past. They obviously filmed this in a botanical garden of sorts and did not bother with hiding that fact at all. Incredible!

If this movie was actually entertaining to watch, I could recommend it at least for a few laughs on a rainy Sunday afternoon, but as it stands this is the worst pile of rubbish I have ever seen.

You have been warned!

I hardly know where to start telling you how this movie is so terrible. The acting if you can call it that was mostly appalling. The script appeared determined to use every cliché stolen from any action movie the writers have ever seen. From "Is that all you've got" and "Blow the thing to hell" to "Let's do this" and the classic, "Go, go, go, go go." The story had more holes than a sieve but in case you are mad enough to want to see this I won't explain how. The CGI had it's moments but not nearly enough to make up for this poor excuse for a sci-fi movie and Robert Picardo didn't do to bad a job in his role as a general. Give this one a miss.

After watching the first ten minutes I felt my brain was in agony so badly, that it was close to a seizure. Quickly I fast forwarded and... no, no,no NO! This movie should be labeled as harmful.

I voted "awful", but there should be a rating like "cheap rubbish" or "please make a law against this". So if you were lead to believe this movie is just "awful", that is only because the IMDb rating system doesn't offer an adequate description for the kind of movies The Asylum makes to fool consumers into thinking they are gonna watch something good while in stead it is simply cheap rubbish, meant do deceive you in to buying the DVD. Essentially, it is fraud. A hustle.

Though I must say, this movie - and others like this one from The Asylum's kitchen - yet have something to offer. To who'd like to count all the inconsistencies, faults, gaps, goofs and bad things, it would be pure joy to watch. Also, you could find joy in wondering WHY. Or simply laugh at all that is so wrong, it kinda gets good. But sadly The Asylum's movies are not that kind of wrong.

So unless you enjoy the pain of watching bad movies, or have OCD, you really do not want to waste your time and money on this. Or internet bandwidth. Be warned.