andrew jones This is a very poor film... and then some.Michael Dorn and George Takei were obviously thinking of their pension pots when they signed for this. When this film is advertised on sky it always bands their names about to drum up viewers. One, their not in it much and Two, their hardly A list.You know it's going to be very poor when a film is also known as something else....it was listed as "Shockwave" when i saw it.Not much else to say really. Bad special effects for the most part, navy seals (or whoever their meant to be) who walk in line while on a mission like a Sunday school outing,foam rocks that wobble,guns that never need to be re loaded and poor acting.If you get bored one night and see this advertised don't do like i did and "give it a go",do something more interesting like count the blades of grass on your lawn.

klchu Wow. Some of my favorite actors are completely wasted in this movie. They try, some more than others, but they can't save this clunker of a script in the hands of an incompetent director. Oh look, the writer and director are the same person: Jim Wynorski.You can tell that this movie had a reasonable budget, but Jim Wynorski doesn't know what to do with it. All of his shots are uninspired and clunky. Likewise, the editing is amateurish. A first year film student could do better.The CGI effects are clean, but they are not integrated well into the live action scenes. Human actors react to things that don't happen, or are out of sync with the CGI action. For example, while being attacked, someone is thrown to the ground by a CGI robot that never gets anywhere close to the actor.Additionally, the music is really lame. Casio keyboard quality from someone's basement.But the worst element is the script. Everything about it is terrible. The story, the lines and the characters are all pathetic.The only things keeping the movie from being a 1 rating are the actors and the rest of the production staff. The camera work is good, as are the costumes, sets, sound, etc. i.e. it's a well-made crappy movie.

tom-darwin With the notable exception of the excellent "Dark Kingdom," the SciFi Channel seems to have an aversion to original productions that don't insult its audience's intelligence. Self-aware combat robots decide to go into business for themselves after crashing on a tropical island that looks amazingly like Santa Barbara County. A commando team is sent in with the brainiac daughter of the scientist who created the critters, charged not with destroying but recapturing them. Complicating matters is a trio of cruise-ship robbers whose getaway helicopter happened to crash on the same island for the same reason (a sudden, unexpectedly huge tropical storm that the gods tossed in to add to the tension because it would be too much work to create it through the story). The machines resemble H.G. Wells's original fighting machines, with the embittered sociopathy of "The Terminator's" SkyNet & the opportunistic assimilation abilities shown in "South Park's" episode "Trapper Keeper." Bits & pieces of story elements that could be attributed to "Resident Evil," "Westworld" & any number of trapped-on-an-island-with-monsters movies serve to finish off any hint of originality. The CGI critter-machines are up to par, although they make annoying creaking noises like the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz." The other sets & props range from so-so to laughably cheap. The commandos are ludicrously incompetent, having received their patrolling, combat & weapons training from third-graders in some backyard. "Star Trek" icons George Takei (ex-Sulu) & Michael Dorn (ex-Worf) might have lent some interest but share no scenes together & have small, dispensable parts. "AI" violates one of the most basic rules in monster movies by both showing & describing the monster in the very first scene, leaving nothing more for imagination or anticipation. The same carelessness with the sets is given to the explanation of the monsters & the rationale for their misbehavior, although the word "matrix" is applied to them at least 3 times. Why does SciFi keep doing this to us? Is it because Michael Bay keeps getting away with making giant movies without plausible stories? Are we being collectively punished for our morbid fascination with Edward D. Wood, Jr.? Is there some secret proviso in Hollywood that prohibits the possession of a valid library card? I'd rather sit through a miniseries of all 39 sequels to "The Wizard of Oz" than see more of these. Uh-oh, better be careful what I wish for.

Michael O'Keefe A Sci-Fi Channel original...actually pretty interesting. Real good F/X. Decent story line. Bad acting. Scientists built them. The military trained them. Two major assault weapons just don't want to follow orders. The two top secret robots need to be deactivated or destroyed, which ever is presentable first. These giant metal spider-like machines rule an uncharted island in the Pacific. Are they smart enough to stay active and remain a military force to be reckoned with? The better scenes of course are the ones with the robots. The finale is tense. Albeit this flick IS worth watching. Credited cast members: Lisa Lo Cicero, Joe Lando, Mike Baldrige, John J. Dalesandro and Alexandra Paul.