Spoonatects
Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
Chirphymium
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Kaelan Mccaffrey
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
edwithmj
I'm sick of reading how bad this film is I really enjoy it every time I watch it. I first saw this film by accident on late night Channel 4 and to my horror I forgot what it was called. Years later in a used video shop I saw one that caught my eye. The spine had a strange looking robot and I picked it up read the synopsis and to my sheer delight it was the film! The film is about a scientist who sends robots back in time to explore the past. One time the experiment goes wrong and the robot encounters some humans which the robot tries to exterminate so as not to pollute the time line. Nicholas Sinclair goes back in time to stop the death and inadvertently causes a virus to mutate into a disease and gives it to everyone. He goes back to his own time and finds everything different. In this reality, robots are being sent to clean the time line thus kill everyone and we follow Sinclair's attempts to stop this from ever happening. I loved the narration during the film. it creates a depressing apocalyptic atmosphere throughout the film and I only saw a couple of bits with bad acting. These were done by the black man who was playing a stereotype. Others found the stereotype offensive, I found it refreshing to see the black man as you'd expect and not some sort of hero. The group of soldiers are good together and it was a nice touch not to have them like each other but still under the command of Shepherd. I always think he would make a great Duke Nukem. The robots did look a little cheap and nasty but are still scary and quite believable. The whole apocalyptic feel is done particularly well with the cities and landscape adding to the pretence that the world is in ruins. The final twenty minutes are gripping. I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen. I loved the bits where the people vanished from reality especially Taylor. The last scene with Shepherd and Sinclair was epic and made excellent cinema and the sound made the film eerie and atmospheric at the end when Sinclair sees himself save the world by stopping the units being sent in the first place. The whole film is thoroughly enjoyable with the fight scenes, dialogue and sets seem too good for a made-to-TV movie.
Anthony Bannon (bannonanthony)
I only just saw this film yesterday after picking it up from a charity shop. The cover, which showed one of the really cool-looking APEX robots from the film caught my attention immediately. When I watched the picture, I was not let down. In some ways, I guess the plot could be seen as a bit of a TERMINATOR rip off, but there's more to it than that. Time travel is a reality in a Utopian future but only robots, known as APEX units are sent to avoid messing up the time line. But when one APEX sterilisation unit nearly kills a family in 1973, a guy called Nicholas Sinclair travels back to stop it.The alternate future that Sinclair returns to after accidentally altering the past is truly hellish. An unknown virus has decimated the population and to cap it all, the surviving humans have to battle with the APEX robots. People infected with the virus are shown no compassion whatsoever. Soldiers infected with it are sent on suicide missions. This particularly rattles Sinclair as the woman who was his wife in his own time line is such a person.Sinclair struggles to set things right while facing hostility from some troop members and attacks from the robots. For a low budget sci-fi movie, this picture is very good. The action scenes are handled brilliantly and the acting from the ensemble group is very good and the robots are a very menacing threat.There were no real big names in the cast but the cast that the film does have are great in their roles. I don't like how much of a jerk they made black soldier Taylor (troop leader Shepherd is forever telling him to shut up) but I guess no film is completely perfect. I intend to try and see some more of Mr. Phillip J. Roth's films to see what they're like. I must say though that I am glad to have APEX in my possession.
bsinc
I saw this movie a long time ago, so I don't remember much of it. I remember some silly looking robots with large CDs popping out their abdominal area and killing people. And I remember it being very boring. I got tired of it before it even developed a plot. I don't remember though, if there was any. It was a movie that couldn't stand fro itself, but shamelessly copied ideas from famous movies.No reason to see this one. Nada. 3/10
aramo1
This is billed as a time travel paradox movie - it's really a poorly thought out cardboard shoot-em up. It's full of inconsistencies and even the supposed paradox is flimsy at best.Berserk robo fans might [at 2am on a stormy night] see something in it but science/sci-fi it ain't.