Transmorphers |
  • USA • 2007 • 86m •  • Directed by: Leigh Scott. • Starring: Matthew Wolf, Amy Weber, Shaley Scott, Eliza Swenson, Griff Furst, Michael Tower, Sarah Hall, Erin Evans, Noel Thurman, Troy Thomas, Dennis Kinard, Jason S. Gray, Elissa Dowling. • Music by: Chris Ridenhour, Eliza Swenson.    A race of alien robots has conquered the Earth and forced humanity underground. After 400 years, a small group of humans develop a plan to defeat the mechanical invaders...
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Written & directed by Leigh Scott this was made by The Asylum who are well known for their blatant rip-offs of big budget Hollywood films, here it doesn't take a genius to work out that Transmorphers is a rip-off of Transformers (2007) & a really dire one at that. Transmorphers is bad even for The Asylum & it's low standards, an example would be that during the opening sequence it is stated that a message was sent to a planet 100 million light years away & four years later we got a response. Well, lets think about that for a second (unlike whoever wrote the script for Transmorphers) because wouldn't our message, like you know, take 100 million light years just to even get to the planet 100 million light years away? Where does four years come in it? Transmorphers will insult the intelligence of anyone old enough to go to school, the destruction of the world is shown by two meteors crashing on Earth, after 400 years of being uninhabited buildings would have crumbled & nothing of our society would be left & what's with the giant robot tower anyway? One tower to control every robot on Earth? We never see the society underground apart from various military soldiers with one actually worrying about her career. Yeah, so the entire world has been destroyed by alien robots yet you can still join the military, get paid & have a career. Where did this underground society which we never see actually get it's technology? Why don't we ever see anyone not in their twenties? It's food? It's supplies?Nothing is made of the fact that these robots are half biological, for some reason women can have wives & there's never any sort of explanation as to why these alien robots even invaded Earth in the first place. Character's are zero dimensional, the dialogue is terrible & while there's a few unintentionally funny moments most of it is just bland & dull. Transmorphers is so badly written & thought out that only The Asylum could have made it, amazingly this has to be one of their worst films & even at only 85 minutes it feels like it goes on forever.
Conceptually Transmorphers is embarrassing but technically it's not better with some of the worst computer effects I have ever seen, some of the robot CGI would look bad even on a Playstation game. The action scenes are awful, there's no excitement, you can barely keep track of who is who & since there was no budget everywhere looks exactly the same so it's hard to visualise where people & or the robots are at any given time. James Cameron did a better job on the low budget The Terminator (1984), over twenty years later & The Asylum can't even come close to matching The Terminator's future set battle scenes between human & robot. The whole production looks cheap with terrible effects, cardboard sets & silly costumes with plastic toy guns.
With a supposed budget of about $250,000 Transmorphers is about as low budget as they come but why should I cut it any slack for that? There are loads of low budget films out there that are great & entertain & at least make sense. The acting is terrible period but some of the girls here were quite nice to look at I suppose.
Transmorphers is one of the worst rip-offs from The Asylum who are starting to develop a really bad reputation & deservedly so, this is just insultingly bad on every level from effects (I won't put the word 'special' in front of effects) to writing to logic to acting. A real stinker of a film even by The Asylum's standards. Frighteningly followed by the sequel Transmorphers: Fall of Man (2009).
Review by Paul Andrews from the Internet Movie Database.
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