A.P.E.X.

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I only just saw this film yesterday after picking it up from a charity shop. The cover, which showed one of the really cool-looking APEX robots from the film caught my attention immediately. When I watched the picture, I was not let down. In some ways, I guess the plot could be seen as a bit of a TERMINATOR rip off, but there's more to it than that. Time travel is a reality in a Utopian future but only robots, known as APEX units are sent to avoid messing up the time line. But when one APEX sterilisation unit nearly kills a family in 1973, a guy called Nicholas Sinclair travels back to stop it. The alternate future that Sinclair returns to after accidentally altering the past is truly hellish. An unknown virus has decimated the population and to cap it all, the surviving humans have to battle with the APEX robots. People infected with the virus are shown no compassion whatsoever. Soldiers infected with it are sent on suicide missions. This particularly rattles Sinclair as the woman who was his wife in his own time line is such a person. Sinclair struggles to set things right while facing hostility from some troop members and attacks from the robots. For a low budget sci-fi movie, this picture is very good. The action scenes are handled brilliantly and the acting from the ensemble group is very good and the robots are a very menacing threat. There were no real big names in the cast but the cast that the film does have are great in their roles. I don't like how much of a jerk they made black soldier Taylor (troop leader Shepherd is forever telling him to shut up) but I guess no film is completely perfect. I intend to try and see some more of Mr. Phillip J. Roth's films to see what they're like. I must say though that I am glad to have APEX in my possession.

A soldier is sent back to the past and after apprehending a robot, finds out that he has changed his present day and a virus has been spread which has started a war against humans and robots. You know the drill. Phillip J. Roth's tiresome effort is very frustrating because of how it refuses to take advantage of its intriguing ideas. The future is turned into a wasteland and the film is a long fight sequence with boring opponents for our soldier hero to fight, there is also a love angle but unlike say The Terminator, it just slows the movie down and adds nothing of depth. The problem is that the hero spends too much time in his future wasteland rather than going back to change what went wrong, making this into a standard action flick. The movie does have impressive production values, some of the action sequences are well staged and the movie is directed well but for me I missed the science fiction and was disappointed. Roth fared much better with 1998's Total Reality which played on the time paradoxes. * * out of 4-(Fair)

I'm sick of reading how bad this film is I really enjoy it every time I watch it. I first saw this film by accident on late night Channel 4 and to my horror I forgot what it was called. Years later in a used video shop I saw one that caught my eye. The spine had a strange looking robot and I picked it up read the synopsis and to my sheer delight it was the film! The film is about a scientist who sends robots back in time to explore the past. One time the experiment goes wrong and the robot encounters some humans which the robot tries to exterminate so as not to pollute the time line. Nicholas Sinclair goes back in time to stop the death and inadvertently causes a virus to mutate into a disease and gives it to everyone. He goes back to his own time and finds everything different. In this reality, robots are being sent to clean the time line thus kill everyone and we follow Sinclair's attempts to stop this from ever happening. I loved the narration during the film. it creates a depressing apocalyptic atmosphere throughout the film and I only saw a couple of bits with bad acting. These were done by the black man who was playing a stereotype. Others found the stereotype offensive, I found it refreshing to see the black man as you'd expect and not some sort of hero. The group of soldiers are good together and it was a nice touch not to have them like each other but still under the command of Shepherd. I always think he would make a great Duke Nukem. The robots did look a little cheap and nasty but are still scary and quite believable. The whole apocalyptic feel is done particularly well with the cities and landscape adding to the pretence that the world is in ruins. The final twenty minutes are gripping. I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen. I loved the bits where the people vanished from reality especially Taylor. The last scene with Shepherd and Sinclair was epic and made excellent cinema and the sound made the film eerie and atmospheric at the end when Sinclair sees himself save the world by stopping the units being sent in the first place. The whole film is thoroughly enjoyable with the fight scenes, dialogue and sets seem too good for a made-to-TV movie.

I didn't like this movie one bit, wait a second, i tell a lie, i liked it for its comedy vaue. I liked the fact that it was TERRIBLE! There was nothing brilliant about this movie, if anything i just wanted to turn it off and go back to sleep, but there was something so terrible about it i just couldn't help but watch!!! The storyline is rather crap, but i'm not sure if a dodgy paradox is the correct word. There IS a possiblity that more than one "tau" line can exist therefore meaning the A.P.E.X units from one time-line could be sent to another since both "tau" lines could exist. Its all very complex and i don't thing the film producers actually understand this. They don't seem to understand that if the different timelines were to remain seperate and at the same time they would interact, somebody in the first timeline would still be able to do something about the units going back! They wouldn't have been sucked into the other world like that since some OTHER people (duplicates) would have been created in the second time line! And why would the people in the first timeline shrink away into nothing if another timeline was created!! Its all very odd. The A.P.E.X units, were very dodgy, i didn't like the fact that they looked like simple bits of plastic thrown on together with some sticky tape keeping all the bits together! The acting was below anything i've ever seen before, i didn't like most of the soliders, and the scene in which the two soliders (the big black dude and the small white one) have a bloody conversation in the middle of a battle with shots going on in the background!? ARGH! LOL Don't watch this unless drunk, stoned or just plain bored. Its something that you wouldn't watch unless u've got nothing else to watch, i wouldn't recommend it otherwise...

This confusing sci-fi entry is a mixture of clever ideas (the main character turns out to be the key to the spreading of a deadly virus) and logic loopholes (when the hero finds himself in the "alternate future", the other characters seem to have known him for years; so where is the other version of himself - the soldier - that apparently has been living there all this time? How can two labs communicate when one of them isn't supposed to exist?), but the production looks as slick as the budget will allow, and there are plenty of explosions for those who like them. (**)

Time travel usually goes wrong. I think all machines designed for that purpose are legally required to have something like that written on a sticker on it. Someone certainly should have told the people of 2072. They decided to mess around with it to... "check out time". With their Advanced Prototype EXploration units(yeah, that *is* a pretty dumb abbreviation), they... well, do so. Apparently. And one of the trips have Nicholas Sinclair going back, because, uhm, something didn't go as planned(...who'da thunk?). He's recently been having nightmares about his wife disappearing by way of a cheap editing trick. This gives him a nasty case of Must Narrate Everything, in spite of the fact that, with two exceptions, what he says, *we already know*. Anyway, he ends up in an alternate time-line where the robots(and yes, there is a nice amount of sequences of humans fighting them in this... and the suits aren't bad, nor is the weaponry on them, with rockets and machineguns) they would send back(to combat the virus that going back in time would create... and they've been programmed to destroy all biological life, I guess... that was good thinking guys, honestly... how could *anyone* think that would backfire?), as these have been constantly been sent back(... automatically? And they keep being made... by who or what?) for 100 years(...wait, we've survived a century of this war?). Don't worry, the people there have figured out how to smash those metal mf-ers into... oh, wait... plus, he meets up with Duke Nukem. Perhaps you've already realized that this script wasn't authored by someone holding a Ph.d. It's pretty straightforward, and the paradoxes don't hold up to scrutiny. Yes, the AI's aim sucks when it needs to. No, the characters are stereotypical. Yes, the lead being in love with this "universe's" version of his spouse(who resembles her by appearance *only*) means he's really superficial. However, if you watched The Terminator and spent the whole time wishing the entire thing was set in the future... well, this is a fix for you. This is 96 minutes sans credits, and most of it is in a post apocalyptic, dystopian future with plenty of explosions, shooting and... well, attempts at tension. The acting is decent. There is lot of bloody violence and disturbing content and a sex scene(not graphic) in this. I recommend this to those that just want to unwind with something like this. 5/10

With apologies to all concerned this has to be the absolute worst film OF ALL TIME! I mean,ask yourself,have you ever seen a film so bad that you were prompted to go online asap to review it? A more complete waste of time & resources you'll be hard pressed to find Judge for yourself if you can a) suspend disbelief long enough and b)can follow a storyline so absurd and convoluted IT CONFUSES ITSELF!