Artivels Undescribable Perfection

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Steineded How sad is this?

DigitalRevenantX7 In the year 2057, the government created the Omega cyborgs in order to subdue the people but the Omegas changed their programming, becoming rebel leaders. In response, the Prototype cyborgs were created with the sole purpose of eliminating the Omegas, which they eventually succeed. Twenty years later in the ruins of Los Angeles, wheelchair-bound war veteran Hawkins Coselaw volunteers for a revival of the Prototype program. Placed in a Prototype battlesuit, Hawkins uses his new powers to protect his girlfriend Chandra from thugs. But what they don't know is that the program's revival is intended to subjugate the surviving population – and that Chandra is the last of the Omegas.The early 1990s were a time when the DTV sci-fi action market blossomed to the point that it is now almost a genre in itself. With major blockbusters like TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY giving rise to the themes of deadly cyborgs, something that would be EXTREMELY popular during that decade, the industry would grow to the point that the DTV industry today is massive.One of the earliest killer cyborg films of the 1990s was 1992's Prototype X29A, a debut for one of the genre's biggest B-grade directors – Phillip J. Roth. Roth would form the UFO production company in the mid-1990s & make dozens of cheap sci-fi flicks. While the director's later works were watchable enough, Prototype X29A is far from perfect.The problem with a film like Prototype X29A is that nothing really happens in it. Roth is so intent on crafting a futuristic society in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that he forgets to add any real story to it. But once the film does pick up one, the lack of any real substance to it causes the film to collapse into empty visuals.That said, the film's greatest strength is that the depiction of the future society where technology is outlawed & a church where a priest plays videos to redeem the sinners & waves a gun around to scare off intruders is interesting. But it's a case of too little too late to add anything worthwhile to the genre.

JaydoDre I know where it all went wrong. The cover. Prototype's tape cover shows a fake-looking robot standing against the background of a virtual reality grid. Instead it should have been showing a couple of lovers with expressions of suffering on their faces and some kind of dramatic quote. The movie should not have been called "Prototype" but rather something like "Desert Roses". It would have attracted a different kind of audience and would have perhaps been much better received.Even if the people watching this B-movie do not admit to having any expectations for it, they are subconsciously expecting to see indications of some genre. Yet they receive none because Prototype can't pick a genre. Well then is it like one of those smart genre-transcending films? Well no, not really. Firstly, because it is not smart and secondly, Because even those kind of movies are clearly about something and generally pick a piece out of each genre on which to base the storyline and Prototype doesn't really get its footing in any of the genres. However if we tried to pinpoint a genre, it would most definitely not be an action movie, but a drama. It is a poorly executed one.The story is about a problematic couple getting caught up in the leftovers of a vague futuristic conspiracy. The setting is an 80s post-apocalyptic sci-fi world.There are multiple aspects of the story that could have been much better developed. It is not that the movie does not have enough material, like some have suggested. It is that the makers did not do enough with the material at hand. There is a whole movie out there about nothing more than a guy who gets his hand stuck in a rock, and it managed to keep its audience interested. Prototype is just poorly executed. The few action scenes are laughable. The stuff in between the action scenes doesn't have enough expression, contains horrible camera decisions and is in desperate need of better dialogue.Having said that, the movie is somewhat underrated as it does have an interesting style and the acting, which this movie heavily relies upon, is not that bad. Unfortunately its style is a slow one, and unless you have a lot of patience with pessimistic sci-fi dramas, you will not like this.I wish someone redid this movie and gave it life rather than a zombie existence.

Kurt Astbury I honestly believe this is the worst movie I've ever seen. I am a B movie activist but this is the worst ever. Do not watch under penalty of law. You have been warned!Here are the questions you should ask yourself / points of interest for this movie.1. What happened to the cities and society that made the world this bad? They never tell you. 2. They never explain that Hawkins Coselow is Chandra Kerkorian's lover. They only way you would ever discover this is if you read the box. 3. From the box. "The experiment goes out of control and the prototype goes hunting for Chandra whom he is programmed to kill." If he is programmed to kill Chandra why would the experiment be going out of control when he begins to hunt her? 4. The explosive climax they promise on the box never happens ... why you ask? The prototypes were only made for one reason, to kill the omegas. Chandra is the last omega. Where does mankind's existence hang in the balance?Here is my personal title for this movie which is much more appropriate.HAWKINS GETS NEW LEGS

onionhead101 I saw this quite a few years ago, probably on a Friday night when I had nothing better to do and had no desire to hit the bars--which would have been a better option, considering the movie. I remember being markedly unimpressed by the film, so much so that I woke up at one point and thought, Man is this thing ever gonna end? I remember seeing Kato Kaelin's name in the end credits, but never had the desire to rewind it and look for him. There aren't many films I have fallen asleep during, particularly early in the evening after a good night's rest, but this thing was like a Valium to a guy on Speed. Highly recommended as a curative if you are an insomniac.