Vomitron_G Jim Wynorski! I love the man. There's just no director who can so rip off his own movies like Wynorski can! Utter genius! I applaud him for that! This time no stock footage from his previous films, but a script that's almost exactly the same as the one he used for "The Curse Of The Komodo" (2004). Only, you replace the Komodos by... giant robots with tentacle-legs and a whole arsenal of various deadly weapons. I loved it. And you can actually take "Shockwave (aka A.I. Assault)" a little bit more seriously than the "Komodo" one. Well,... maybe you can't, but what the hell. It's total campy, implausible, sci-fi B-drivel-entertainment. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but the CG-effects are actually pretty decent. Well, maybe not all that decent, but whatever. Even the killings are fun to watch. And Tim Thomerson has absolutely nothing to do in this film, except for briefing some soldiers and talking over the phone. Oh well, I might as well admit it: I had my fun with this one. Thank you, Jim. Next time put some naked tits in it, will you?

Mr_Jackhammer I've never reviewed a movie before without watching the whole thing. This is a special case. I began watching the movie. 3 minute later, crappiness reached critical mass. People screaming at badly animated CGI robots. Pistols with endless clips that magically fire without recoil (In fact, upon looking closer, I realized that the pistols are more magical than I realized at first. They somehow fire without the hammer even moving!) Right about the time the guy in camouflage parked his truck underneath the robot and waited for it to laser him is where I quit watching and started doing my math homework. Did they even try with this movie? Jeez. I feel insulted. Thank God I only wasted $2 renting it. Easiest review I've ever made.CCCCCCRRRRAAAAAPPPPP! I've seen better homemade movies on YouTube.

kidanubis This movie was identical to the Curse of the Komodo (http://imdb.com/title/tt0346811/), just change giant Komodo dragons with robots and right down to the helicopter with bank robbers and a race to defeat the robots and get off the island before it's nuked (but no Glori-Anne Gilbert boobage). There was even a brief, weird zombie-like scene. Coincidence? Nope. Both were directed by Jim Wynorski (http://imdb.com/name/nm0691061/).The effects weren't bad, but they never developed the plot thread that the robots got smarter the longer they were active. The intelligence level seemed pretty unchanged throughout the movie.Verdict: 1 robot tentacle out of 5

Jack Well, it's a new experience to watch a movie for the first time and be able to recite the dialogue before the actors say their lines. This movie shares the exact same plot, and about 10 pages of the script, with the movie Curse of the Komodo. The trouble is, Curse is one of the better B-movies I've seen, with excellent characters, a fun story, nice locations, and big breasted babes galore. This movie may or may not be good on its own, I don't know; I spent the whole time noticing how unfavorably it compared to it's predecessor. It didn't help that one of the leads in Curse had a small part in this movie, and he served as a constant reminder of how much personality those characters had, and how little everyone has in this film. It really kept me from enjoying this film. The story is fairly interesting overall. A group of H.G. Wells type tripods (or quadrupods in this case) are stomping around on an island, terrorizing the survivors of a plane crash and the military guys sent in to rescue them. The A.I. critters are done fairly well considering they're obvious CGI. I thought they added a nice '50 charm to the movie. Same with the cheesy '80s theme music, it reminded me a bit of Chopping Mall. Wynorski is a master of getting the most out of what he's got, and his cutting back and forth to the military commanders in Pearl Harbor keeps things moving every time the action starts to get a bit slow. The movie is chock full of the usual B-movie silliness - people firing 150 shots from a pistol without reloading, military guys standing right in front of the killer A.I. critters and firing another 150 shots without reloading, while the A.I. things can't seem to hit them with its lasers, but it can hit somebody else 100 yards away. Or the A.I. robot chasing a pickup, getting to within about 20 feet of it, but then the pickup pulls over to let the passengers off and the A.I. is nowhere to be seen. That stuff doesn't bother me, it's all B-movie goodness. I was just impressed to see that the F-16's DIDN'T change into F-14's in every other shot like they did in Curse of the Komodo. The main problem for me was the characters - they're just not very interesting. None of them distinguish themselves as anything more than the standard clichés. Maybe that was just because I was making the inevitable comparison to the really excellent characters in the previous movie; I don't know. The big climax at the end at least had a bit of originality to it, it wasn't just the usual large explosion that every Sci-Fi Channel original movie ends with.Overall, for a Sci-Fi Channel original, it wasn't too bad. I'd say it rates in the top 20 or 30 percent of their output. It needed more boobs though.