Andron

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In the future, 8 billion people have been wiped-out by "the network." The 2 billion people left are all slaves to the 9 corporations that run the world. Their chance at freedom is to take part in the "Redemption Games." Alternatively, if they lose, they die. And so do all the slaves that have placed bets in this or that character. They get to see the games in first person perspective with some virtual virtual reality glasses as the contestants have been injected with nano-retinal cameras. So we meet the current sorry set of contestants. They are in some abandoned facility. But their memory has been wiped clean so they don't even know they are in a contest. How's that for an exciting life-or-death contest? These people don't know what year it is, who they are, where they are, why they are there, or what's going on. On top of that they don't enter the game at the same time, some of them have been there longer than others. So we meet them as they meet each other. Some are violent, some are peaceful. Some are reasonable, some aren't. The facility itself is supposed to be a maze of sorts, but if things weren't difficult enough, it changes as well, walls move closing the people off, or separating them, or killing them. In charge of the game is Alec Baldwin. He answers to Danny Glover who is the chancellor. He has a slave for whom he's developing feelings. When things get out of hand in the maze, Baldwin dispatches some tough girl to take care of things. Occasionally, the contestants are attacked by some guards. The contestants discover they have tattoos on their necks, which match a stone maze found on some walls, which allows the specific person to obtain some power. In one case one guy puts his arm in the stone maze and gets a weapon attached, that he rarely uses even when attacked by guards. While the contestant run around with little chance of anything we eventually learn something about some of them, as Baldwin grants them some memory. One of them was a guard, another was a programmer who took part in creating all this, another one even was a former contestant. Apparently things do look up for the contestants and that gets Baldwin in trouble who has to gather all his resources to challenge to contestants. And we learn of the outcome of the games. All this sounds OK enough, but it only means that a lot of effort went in this movie, mostly by the writers. It's not particularly original, but the back story is good enough. Unfortunately, there's no way around it that Andron is a huge failure. The cast is awful, you couldn't care less about any of these people. Baldwin is the only one who plays along and acts. The direction is completely clueless. This is supposed to be action sci-fi, but the action is filmed so poorly, they would have been better off not showing any action altogether. Not to mention that the director doesn't manage to get anything resembling a decent performance out of anyone but Baldwin. I don't think Andron is even passable enough for the international market. A good movie was possible with this script I think, but this crew ruins it completely.

Usually a movie has a start and a end. This movie just skipped everything. I didnt understand the start and the end of the movie. The moviemakers tried to bring in some kind of story, but that just raised more questions and answers. I am dissapointed that Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover chose to act in such a low class movie. Dont even waste a dime to watch this movie.

ANDRON is a gloomy and derivative sci-fi B-movie made with a cast of has-been British TV actors and a singer who simply cannot act. It was shot on the fly in a matter of weeks, with a number of contestants trapped in an underground maze complex and forced to battle against android robots to the death. Sadly, the stilted execution is so poor as to render this near unwatchable, and you do wonder just what poor old Michelle Ryan's casting agent was thinking. Alec Baldwin slums it in one of those behind-a-desk roles and you have to feel even sorrier for a barely-glimpsed Danny Glover. Add in a handful of bad CGI and you have a film you'll want to go out of your way to miss.

I saw this movie for free, and I still overpaid. Alec Baldwin is, once again, a ham sandwich on two legs. Add the insufferable Danny Glover and you would think things couldn't get worse. But wait....poor photography, choppy editing, poor acting and corny dialog all contribute to making this a giant stink-burger.

Let me start for saying, what the hell are Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover doing in a movie like this? The acting on this movie is so weak that even both of them are ridiculous in they parts. It could be a good idea for a plot, in the future somewhere in the year 2154 a group of people is ruling the earth after a catastrophe, and they made a game where they put some people in a maze where only one can survive. Good idea, but all the rest is wrong, the maze is stupid, the dialogues sometimes look like children play at school, the acting is uauau what can i say, bad is not enough. After 93 minutes you want to quickly forget the movie, if you love your time on earth please stay away of this movie.

This movie is unbearable bad. Bad acting is cloaked with a story of such stupidity that it is only matched by its complexity. Nearly not bearable and completely useless. No Message, just fragments of mismatching story parts combined with brain dead violence. If - after watching this movie - I'd been asked for a plot, I'd honestly have to say: "Sorry, no clue. But there's dramatic music, minor special effects and some violence" An absolute need not see. Let's hope the don't waste any money for a sequel.

"10 must enter the challenge. The goal is the conquest of freedom. Welcome to the season premiere of the redemption games." There are bad movies. There are horribly bad movies. And there's "Andròn: The Black Labyrinth". Normally I succeed in finding something positive in a movie. But no matter how hard I looked for it, I couldn't find anything positive in this one. Whatever aspect I even looked at. The conclusion is that it's in each case a failure. It's nothing new that nowadays a moderate version of a successful Hollywood product is being made once and a while. They try to ride the waves of success of those blockbusters, of course. You would expect them to be at least a bit more creative with the stolen concept. Even this film doesn't bother about that. It simply copies the stuff shamelessly. Ultimately, this looks like a kind of "The Hunger Games". It's set in a maze as in "The Maze Runner". And all of this is happening in a post-apocalyptic, overcrowded world, as you could admire in "Elysium". In "Elysium" the poorest population lived on earth in deplorable conditions, while the happy few floated in an orbit on an artificial paradise. In "Andròn" they keep the world population in balance by organizing bets on a contest organized in the black labyrinth. At stake are the lives of the wretched population itself. So, if you bet on the wrong person, it's goodbye glorious life. A kind of "Bet to Win". So it's better you don't lose. Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover weren't really picky in terms of movies recent years. That's a fact. Baldwin starred briefly in "Still Alice", but I can't remember any film after "Lethal Weapon" with Glover in it, which was actually worth a watch. But what got into them to collaborate on this project, is a mystery to me. Not that they play such a weighty roles. And they aren't very excited about it either. The ten unfortunates who get caught in this maze where they have to struggle for survival, are all unknown actors to me. To be honest, this was noticeable. Sometimes it seemed like they were waiting for the prompter, so they could remember their next dialogue line. Even the battle scenes with terrible looking Ninja Turtles were poorly coordinated. It seemed sometimes like an ordinary game of tag. Mostly they just waited for their opponents to attack them. The only one I recognized was Skin, better known as the lead singer of Skunk Anansie. I'm not a big fan of this band. And I won't become a big fan of her as an actress either. It all felt pretty forced. Although the characters sometimes seem really stupid and meaningless, the actors themselves aren't to blame. It's because of the worthless and confusing story. Most of the time you're wondering what on earth it's all about. The victims run around in a circular maze. But I guess it's pretty hard to walk in a circle when you look at the geometry of the walls. And that's the only thing you can expect. A group of contestants plagued with amnesia, stumbling through this maze (although it looks more like a factory building by the way) all distraught and confused. Alec Baldwin controls the show using high-tech gadgets. And Glover's contribution can be called ridiculous. For those who have reached the end without falling asleep, the closing scene was really disappointing. Unprecedented one of the worst movies I've seen this year. A meaningless story, pitiful performances and also quite cheap-looking special effects. It wouldn't surprise me this will be a new way of torturing, used in a dictatorial country somewhere. Mandatory watching "Andròn : The Black Labyrinth" for hours. Painful! More reviews here : http://bit.ly/1KIdQMT

The world is now run by Really Evil Corporations, who for evil reasons nuked the earth and enslaved all 2 billion remaining people. Every year, to keep the slaves from revolting, the Really Evil Corporations hold a Hunger Games, er, Andron tournament. Ten slaves are chosen to compete in an Evil Maze for the ultimate prize - their freedom. Also, time travel exists, so the slaves are from different eras and the game itself happens in a different time period each year. But the other 2 billion slaves can still watch the Evil proceedings in real time because the players have nanocameras embedded in their eyes, and they have really good WiFi. The maze is haunted by an evil ghost lady who can shoot lightning out of her fingertips, and evil ninjas with red pants and glowing LED eyes. Also, the maze drops random weapons for the contestants, because video games. Oh, and the contestants have selective amnesia. The entire thing is orchestrated by Evil Alec Baldwin, whose presence in this movie tells us he spent all that Capital One money. Evil Alec sits behind a desk in a well-appointed palace and manipulates the game while yelling at his hot Secretary. But Evil Danny Glover, who also needs money, is Evil Alec's boss and the two have creative differences about how they should gruesomely kill people in this maze. Maybe they're worried about ratings. But how can they be when the only audience is 2 billion slaves who don't get any other channels? They're the only game in town, like baseball in mid-July. Anyway, this is hands-down one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. The plot is nonsensical. The dialogue veers from cringe to cringe. The movie even robs the characters of names, so we get conversations like this: "Hey, where's that guy with the glasses?" "I don't know, wasn't he with that other girl?" "What other girl?" There is one mind-blowing thing about Andron: That this script wasn't immediately tossed in the reject bin, nevermind given the greenlight. It's one of those movies that makes you marvel at how ANYONE could have thought it was a good idea. Fair warning, this movie is not the kind of bad that's fun to watch because it's unintentionally hilarious. It's just bad. Proceed at your own risk.

I'm sure I won't be the only person asking the question whether Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover really needed a paycheck that badly to be in this catastrophe of a movie? After selecting it from Redbox, I came home and saw the 2.8 rating on IMDb and knew I was in big trouble. I could go on and on writing how on so many levels this film is abysmal. Let's just say I found the "plot" to be a convoluted mess, the emotionless acting left me uncaring about any of the characters, and I would have turned it off much earlier but I stuck it out, I imagine, to write this review. All in all, just a very painful hour and a half.