Age of Tomorrow

I am writing this review as the climax (if you can call it that) is happening so I may drop a few spoiler by accident. I have to say, for Asylum mock busters, this is a bad one, not the worst, but pretty close. I watched it for Kelly Hu and Robert Picardo (who give a semi-good rendition of Bill Pulman's speech before they attack the mother-ship in ID4, and Robert's character is a General who sits in an office that looks like he is a a Motel conference room), but other than a really good looking alien (that we only see one of), a semi touching father-daughter story (Anyone know what she was doing at the office building), a few good kill shots (my fav was the fireman on the pickup, you know when you see it), there is not a lot of saving grace. I mean SPOILER ALERT, Earth has a secret fleet of space-fighter ships that look like ripoffs of the blockaded runner from Star Wars Episode IV. And the Earth crews look like they are from a cheesy 90's video game. OK, the alien forest was cool to look at, reminded me of a color version of Doctor Who 1963 The Dead Planet (first Dalek episode). But the alien lab was sprayed with silly string. OK,that is all I can say for the good parts...highlights if you will. Now for the acting, I have read other reviews and they are pretty close in saying most of the supporting cast is below awful. Some of them should never have taken up acting, or just take roles without lines. The story jumped so much, I had no idea what the LA scenes had to do with the Alien world until the 15 minuets before the end. Now the fireman with the Axe is a bit different, but not enough to save this one. Don't get me wrong, I love The Asylum; they have made some great movies like dare I say best BAD movie ever made SHARKNADO, American War Ship, Rise of the Zombies (GO DANNY TREJO, Machete would have chopped these aliens up!) and Battledogs to name a few. I think this movie is what the Star Wars Christmas Special is to George Lucas; Asylum should never have put there name on it.

This was so big of a Epic Fail it turned out to be one of the best laughs I have had for ages. It starts off with pretty much Armageddon and Deep Impact plot then moves into a Starship Troopers and Battle: Los Angeles and the Shuttles are like a Hybrid of a Ship from Thunderbirds and the Last Starfighter and when it takes off the first time the flames from the rocket seem to go through the ground. Upon Arriving in Space they for some reason have perfect gravity and also they same when they land on the Meteor totally the same gravity as earth also when they pass through the porthole to the alien Planet wow what are the chances of that. All the Death scenes are so hilarious the effects seem almost cartoonist like and so random most the main cast was Dead before the first half. All I wanted Robert Picardo to say was "Please state the nature of the Medical emergency." The movie was only missing the Benny Hill Music at the End that would of made it perfect. So to some it up its so funny because it so bad even Dean Cain would not play a role in it worth watching for that alone.

Not seen Edge of Tomorrow but I would guess with a budget of nearly 180 million and few years to complete compared to Age of Tomorrow with just 1 million and made with in a few weeks well... I let you decide. Considering the time to make and the budget this is one of Asylum's better movies, certainly the effects, props and sets are some of the best I have seen from them. Plus Edge has yet to cover its budget with the box office takings and Age will cover its budget within 3 months like all of the Asylum movies do. All that aside I guess people are thinking they are similar movies by the title and I expected the same, from what I have heard and read Edge's story is nothing like Age's story, the only similarity is the title. I can see similarities with Armageddon, Aliens, Avatar ETC but not Edge. Back to Age of Tomorrow, we have the usual new or has been actors, with average performances, special effects, sets and props I have already mentioned but what lets it down more than anything is the messy, flawed, goof ridden make it up as they go along story. With this all said it is an average movie with all things considered, but could have been an above average 6 or 7 if it had had a more thought out story.

There is worse than Age of Tomorrow from The Asylum, but with Age of Tomorrow still being pretty poor stuff that is not saying very much. Granted Kelly Hu looks great still and brings charming command to her role and Robert Piccardo also tries his best and is the most involved actor in the cast(this said this is another of quite a few cases where Piccardo's material is beneath him). The locations are cool and quite pretty and the space-suits compared to the rest of the production values are decent at least. Age of Tomorrow on the whole is a cheap looking movie however, the driving sequences look like little more than haphazardly edited stock footage, the entire movie looks gloomy, the editing is bacon-slicer like and the special effects are never great or even good, the best of them are merely okay but most of them are awful. The music is basically loud sluggish-in-tempo noise played constantly, in the more dramatic parts you really do wish that they toned it down a bit. The script rarely makes sense with exposition parts that are ham-fisted and explanatory ones that is largely suggestive of the writers having no idea what they were talking about and how to deliver it. Any snappy moments are anything but and everything else is completely emotionally flat. The story is a disaster in itself, it starts off reasonably amusing, but much of it is unintentionally with all the goofs and what stuff the movie throws at you, but this gets tiring very quickly, here we're talking about less than half-an-hour in. None of the subplots are interesting, the main plot was a good idea that was let down by a complete lack of tension or fun and the threat not being that threatening at all while the trying-to-find-daughter subplot is where the movie starts to slow down and when it slows down it does so painfully. Plus it ends on a very anti-climatic note. The movie is erratically paced, the action has no life and looks under-rehearsed, the direction shows little character or technical skill. With the cardboard and barely developed characters doing them no favours, with the exception of Hu and Piccardo, the acting is bad, some even looking and sounding like they were still trying to remember their lines which was laughable. Overall, for The Asylum Age of Tomorrow could have been worse but it is still poorly done and tiresome with a few things keeping it from being unwatchable. 3/10 Bethany Cox

I love a good science fiction B-Movie. Even some created by Asylum are pretty good. After reading the plot summery I decided to watch this movie. I was confused while watching at the plot summery had nothing to do with the movie. The movie had nothing to do with the sun, as far as I saw and nothing to do with an anthropologist or the pyramid of the moon. I honestly do not know what movie the plot given by Asylum actually belonged to, but it was not this on. I wish I could get a job watching their movies and righting their plot summaries, at least they would belong to the correct movies. As for my review Decent movie with good actors not a great story and the ending was sadly anticlimactic. Still want to see the movie the plot belongs to LOL, although it sounds like one I have watched before...

I hardly know where to start telling you how this movie is so terrible. The acting if you can call it that was mostly appalling. The script appeared determined to use every cliché stolen from any action movie the writers have ever seen. From "Is that all you've got" and "Blow the thing to hell" to "Let's do this" and the classic, "Go, go, go, go go." The story had more holes than a sieve but in case you are mad enough to want to see this I won't explain how. The CGI had it's moments but not nearly enough to make up for this poor excuse for a sci-fi movie and Robert Picardo didn't do to bad a job in his role as a general. Give this one a miss.

Now, I like stupid movies with bad acting, because it avails me of the opportunity to crack a lot of jokes and keep myself amused. However, this movie is so bad on every level at all times that I became laugh-exhausted about 30 minutes in. I don't understand where they got these "actors" from. They should have been forced out of the industry at gunpoint immediately upon their arrival in Los Angeles. I don't understand aliens who cannot be killed by high-velocity projectiles, but can be killed by bonking them with bits of fire safety equipment. I don't understand how our hero is pointlessly dragged before the alien queen for a Big Reveal, but then he never reveals any of this vital information to anyone else except in the vaguest terms. And that's cool with everyone else who, you know, has their planet's existence on the line. No follow-up questions from the team. At all. I don't understand how you plan to successfully invade another PLANET with a team of 5 people. One of whom is only armed with a fire axe. By choice. I don't understand ... aw heck, I don't understand any aspect of this movie, and I'm not going to wear my fingers down to nubs typing about it. This movie isn't "Ha-Ha" bad - it's "Give me back my 120 minutes of life or I'll hose your offices down with lead" bad. Oops, gotta go - I think I hear police sirens ...

Seriously, I would not give this film the time (which I obviously have, hence this review lol) in terms of watching. It has been very badly made, very cheap and tacky, very poor acting and special effects are awful. As they say ' I'll give this a pass '......never a truer word said. This movie is diabolical trash. My expectations were, slightly, a little high for this movie, but after watching just 5 minutes of it, I knew then that it was very much a exceedingly low budget movie done, even for this trash of a movie, very much on a basis of ' quickly done with little thought ever being put into it '. I do not think there is 1 positive thing I can say about this movie.........lines and lines of negative appraisal most definitely. To conclude, give this movie a wide berth.

I would imagine by now a lot of IMDb users have notice that The Asylum Movie Company since its inception in 1999 is almost completely a COPYCAT company producing movies at the expense of credible movies that were just produced and released with Asylum producing an almost exact reproduction of that major release at the same time. So if a movie sounds familiar check who is the "Company Credits" are just below "Details" guaranteed it was "The Asylum". Also you will notice that the rating of these movies are usually around 2 or 3 stars (maybe a 4 star but very rare), with very poor animation, week plots, very poor acting and a horrendous ending. So unless you are really wanting to see a very bad movie and have a couple of hours just to waste in your life, stay away from The Asylum produced movies,(or just put your tomato plant or cat in front of the TV and let it vegetate and not you.) In fact if you did not know, none of their movies have ever released in a credible movie theatre, just straight to video. I hope like a lot of IMDb subscribers, you do not support Asylum by buying or downloading such garbage. It only gives them more incentive to try to produce trash movies. I know there are also similar companies that have produced copycat movies but they generally are not total garbage like The Asylum's. "The Asylum" should apply for asylum and be granted refugee status in another country......... Here is a list of The Asylum produced movies: Bellyfruit, Fourplay, Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill, Vampires vs. Zombies, H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, King of the Lost World, Snakes on a Train, The Da Vinci Treasure, When a Killer Calls, 666: The Child, Halloween Night Pirates of Treasure Island, Hillside Cannibals, The 9/11 Commission Report, Dragon, Transmorphers, The Hitchhiker, AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, The Apocalypse, Invasion of the Pod People, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 666: The Beast, Freakshow, I Am Omega, 100 Million BC, 2012: Doomsday, Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls, Death Racers, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Monster, Street Racer, Sunday School Musical, The Day the Earth Stopped, War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, The Land That Time Forgot, Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, 18-Year-Old Virgin, Sex Pot, Princess of Mars, Haunting of Winchester House The Terminators, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, 2012: Supernova, Paranormal Entity, 6 Guns, Titanic II, The 7 Adventures of Sinbad, 8213: Gacy House, Mega Piranha, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, MILF, Moby Dick, Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus, Almighty Thor, Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes, Battle of Los Angeles, 3 Musketeers, 200 mph, 11/11/11, Barely Legal, The Amityville Haunting, Zombie Apocalypse, Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, Princess and the Pony, Grimm's Snow White, 2-Headed Shark Attack, Bikini Spring Break, Hold Your Breath, Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, Alien Origi, 100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck, American Warships, Clash of the Empires, Nazis at the Center of the Earth, Rise of the Zombies, 500 mph Storm, AE: Apocalypse Earth, Alone for Christmas, Attila, Atlantic Rim, Hansel & Gretel, Sharknado, Jack the Giant Killer, Mother, Age of Dinosaurs, Age of Tomorrow, Airplane vs. Volcano, Alpha House, Android Cop, Apocalypse Pompeii, Asian School Girls, Asteroid vs. Earth, Mercenaries, Bermuda Tentacles, Hercules Reborn, Jailbait, Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark, Sharknado 2:(Second One), Sleeping Beauty.

Dear Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson; the ultimate film makers for some new seasons of MST3K are finally here, just think, your very own bad movie making crew, introducing ASYLUM with THE WORST films to ever make it to any screen. It might be a bit overkill for the MST3K team and I wouldn't want to harm any robots in the viewing of these movies. I seen an appetizing movie, went to check it out first, and nearly laughed myself to death reading the reviews, come to find out it is a film from Asylum, I didn't want to ruin my fun by viewing the movie. read the reviews, they are so much better than an Asylum movie, and I really gotta say, some of these reviews are just hysterical