Joxerlives I was a huge fan of Nemisis and this motivated me to rent and watch this flick. It's not bad although it's not a patch on Oliver Gruner's previous great sci-fi action film. The good? John Glover is good as always, a role he will excel at in countless different films and TV shows. Love the gag where the business executive is talking on the videophone about projecting family values unaware that his gorgeous naked teenage hookers are helping themselves to his champagne in the background. Gruner is OK, Daphne Ashbrook is gorgeous as she also was in the Dr Who movie. Love the fake Robocop style advert at the beginning, just playing so blatantly on the fears of middle class America. Must say I didn't see the twist coming at all, it was well played. Lovely ending too, you wonder what will become of these two but it's filled with hope.Overall it lacks the philosophy of Nemisis although it does give it a go, what I really liked about Nemises was how it combined way OTT and imaginative shoot-em-up with touching musings about humanity. The teams of mercenaries hunting the heroes are dreadful clichés, especially the female team leader who is so obviously a ripoff of Vasquez in Aliens. Somehow it all just doesn't hang together as much as it should but for a blatantly low budget sci-fi action flick it does a great deal with what it has to work with. Altogether I'd say it's no Blade Runner but certainly a passable way to spend a couple of hours

edwithmj This film is one of the worst robot sci-fi flicks I've ever seen. The actor who played the lead role was worse than awful - he can't say one line correctly in the whole film. The plot is nonsensical - the aforementioned robot is a security guard or something who is super-strong and knows martial arts (although why he needs martial arts when he's almost indestructible isn't explained) finds its boss attempting to rape a woman and kills him. The corporation then retaliates by sending HUMAN mercenaries after the robot! What did they expect? That the humans would somehow destroy the super-strong, super-intelligent robot? They should've sent super-strong ROBOTS after him - they had enough of them! I was never in any doubt that the robot would win every time - the mercenaries never come close to killing it. The viewer is expected to feel sympathy for the robot and the other robots despite the fact that they're busy taking jobs from the humans as well as killing them - I was rooting for the humans all the way. They even have this ridiculous "sorrowful" scene with a robot head with no body with the woman saying something like how awful and cruel it is! Yeah, the next time I throw a broken toaster away I'm going to write a eulogy and say a few words... a truly nauseous scene indeed.As I said before, the viewer is never in any doubt that the robot would win, the mercenaries never had a hope; and I'm expected to delight in the killing of the mercenaries trying to make a living by a homicidal machine? Ha! The "twist" at the end takes the biscuit though. We find out the woman who was being attacked at the beginning is bizarrely also a robot and one of several hundred at that. Plot holes abound because of this: why are there hundreds of the same model? If the woman were in fact a robot, why didn't she have the super-strength like the protagonist had which would've enabled her to stop her attacker? Why didn't the man who was killed for attacking her know she was a robot and why didn't the protagonist robot know? Also vexing is the knowledge that the man was killed for attacking an advanced blow-up doll who wasn't even human and therefore was committing no crime thus making the robot even more homicidal and malfunctioning.The producers seem to have wanted to make some sort of film highlighting the "plight" of robots except they seem to be unaware that robots don't exist and thus support for their film from the oppressed minorities of electrical beings is therefore impossible.The morality, the plot, the acting, the characters and the general look of this film are completely amateur, unentertaining, predictable and formulaic. You've been warned.

jkburkholder Hey, the movie wasn't great. But for an evening in the easy chair and not much mind action..it was perfect. Oliver Gruner is my idea of a strong silent man...Not much talk but man, can he move. And Daphne Ashbrooke was not the wimpy female lead most often associated with "he-man" movies.

AlabamaWorley1971 Basic Die Hard rip-off action flick with touches of wit and even satire. John Glover as the jolly corporate mogul is great. (Particularly in the first five minutes!) Jeff Kober, as always, has a lot of fun with a small role. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would!