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Plot Summary
In the year 2707, war rages between Earth's four giant corporations as they battle over the planet's dwindling resources. Amid heavy combat, an ancient buried seal shatters, releasing a horrific mutant army from its eternal prison deep within the Earth. As the mutant plague threatens human extinction, a single squad of soldiers descends into the Earth to save mankind.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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21%- Reviews Counted: 34
- Fresh: 7
- Rotten: 27
- Average Rating: 3.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: It's photogenic people killing mutants before green screens; what more could you ask?
Rotten: I dearly hope John Malkovich got paid handsomely for his two days of embarrassment on-set.
Rotten: When the ridiculous and the sublime come within kissing distance like this, you know that, script or no script, Hollywood has found a way to have a wonderful time.
Rotten: The production notes describe this as an epic sci-fi action thriller like no other, which is on every level a blessing - it's like being dropped into a tar pit of underlit tedium.
Customer Reviews
Blech
When a mindless, inexplicably evil force threatens a clichéd and war-torn future, only a team of 8 two-dimensional characters can save their world from destruction.
I don't like to be too harsh of a critic of films. After all, as the Asylum has shown us, sometimes we can make a film that eschews plot continuity, innovation and decent acting for a good laugh and possibly a drinking game or two. However, just minutes into this movie I realized how bleak the outlook of the next hour and a half was. First and foremost, the look of the film is extremely off-putting. I would love to give the director props for trying a look that hasn't been seen much in movies since the advent of Technicolor, but the colors are so desaturated and the contrast so low that detail was a bit too difficult to make out without cranking the brightness on my monitor. The pervasive use of the digital stage makes the entire movie seem cheap, although the props, clothing and make-up were all pretty well done, as was the camera work. All in all though, the movie was a struggle to even look at, much less enjoy on any deeper level.
Right from the exposition in the beginning, the dialog is stale and doesn't do much to make the story engaging or the characters alive. Despite this, the movie would have been far more tolerable had the actors been able to breathe life into the characters. Absolutely no one had any personality beyond "morose and violent". You'd think that with a cast that includes Thomas Jane and John Malkovich would at least deliver a few good lines, but everything is delivered without vocal inflection or facial expression. It was as though the director threatened to beat people to death with their own severed legs if anyone showed any signs of having thoughts or feelings. The result is a pack of unlikable plot-bots who meander from one death to another, at some parts even watching each other die gruesomely with no visible reaction at all. If this is simply a product of their environment - life in this future is absurdly violent, after all - then it wasn't properly introduced in the movie. The one diamond in the rough was Anna Walton, who plays a mostly silent lady-monk-ninja-warrior. Not only did she have the best performance in the whole cast, even going so far as to move the muscles in her face when surprised, but she's mind-numbingly gorgeous as well, even in the colorless muck of the film screen.
I rented this movie well expecting, and wanting, a crappy Scifi flick. I wanted terrible dialog, young actors overplaying their parts as monster victims or heroes, violence, nudity and a predictable ending with a witty one-liner to send the evil monster off to hell with a grenade in its mouth. That would have at least been fun. Instead, I watched otherwise good actors drag their feet through a painfully thin plot that takes place in an uninteresting and poorly fleshed out world about which nothing at all worthwhile happens. Don't let the mediocre star rating and good reviews fool you, this movie should be totally avoided even if you like watching bad movies.
Ok movie, Bad finish
This movie is a little disappointing. It could have been much better. The action is good and it has some well known actors who do a good enough job. But the ending will leave you flat.
I Dont Why Its Rated 3 and a half stars
I Love This Movie and can tell that it is underrated but 3 and a half stars that is not what this movie should be rated but if you can get by the crappy special effects i am sure you will love this movie
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