After all the horrible things I heard about this movie, I wasn't
expecting much when I found it for $3 in a pawn shop... and, after
watching it a couple of times, I don't know what the hell people who
say this is "the worst movie in the world" were smoking... because this
is one of the best low-budget sci-fi flicks I have ever come across.
Though it is by no means a sublime piece of art, I find the fact that
the plot concerns one woman and her boyfriend fighting off this robot
in her apartment, with the collapsing world as a backdrop around them
to be somewhat refre****ng in an age of sci-fi films trying to be epic
and ending up trite. Though clumsily written at times and with the
robot looking almost ridiculous at points, we get a nicely shot,
stylishly lit sci-fi thriller that takes place on a human scale and
whose premise has enough depth, symbolism and irony to make it all
worthwhile. Best film I have ever seen? Hardly. But the best deal I've
had for $3 in a very, very long time.
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rajan
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