Battle Drone

This is the cheesy mess you get when a stuntman wants to become a writer and director. Stay a stuntman. Mitch Gould's attempt to write and direct this film failed miserably. The only redeeming quality and the reason for a 3 and not a 1/10 is the concept of the story, and the fairly decent costumes of the 'drones'. The dialogue was so cheesy, it made Louis Mandylor's character unbearable, as was his acting, and for that matter the rest of the cast. The blame for the acting failure goes primarily to the director for failing to direct his cast properly. The slow-mo action scenes were also unbearable. This entire dragged out film was basically me watching a 5 year old play a video game and pause to change the viewing angles in slow motion. Right from the starting credits, I was hoping I wouldn't see any more of this cheesy directing, yet the film was full of it. Then you have the endless dragged-out gun fights of constant back and forth shooting where both sides just keep missing. Did a 5th grader write the screenplay? And what's with the western themed score? Any comparison to Predator, the A-Team or the Expendables is an insult to either franchise. I'm guessing either someones rich dad funded this mess or someone won a lottery - and wanted to become a filmmaker. This film hurt to watch. Don't waste your time with it. A very generous 3/10 from me.

To call this movie an awful piece of schlock would be generous. You have a group of mercenaries (the "heroes") who seem to have graduated from the Clint Eastwood school of "We Never Miss" vs. a group of combat androids who graduated from the CE school of "Our Weapons Never Need Reloading." The heroes are composed of a token pretty girl who's a savant with a sniper rifle but an idiot about everything else (all she was missing was blond hair or a throwaway joke about dying it), a super ninja guy who fights only with knives, a shotgunner with all the depth of an empty coffee cup, a big russian who takes a fall off a four story building with several hundred pounds of android on top of him with no effect other than to make him take a nap for about the last third of the film, and an understated psychopath (in his exposition he reveals he was molested by a catholic priest as a kid, I'm guessing to justify how he's so nuts he makes the rest of the team fear for their own safety around him). They wind up being joined by a second token pretty girl - a CIA agent (with perfect makeup for a field mission) who naturally gets betrayed by her superiors. The team is led by a former Army officer who seems to think he's Neo in that he carries a half-dozen pistols under his overcoat and just drops and draws when they run out, and he must have been an honors graduate from CE school because he can shoot out a satellite dish with a pistol from approximately half a mile away. He also has a backstory that's so cliche' I guessed it about two minutes into the film. On the other side, we have your required evil general (who shares backstory with the leader of the heroes, naturally), an idiot CIA official, an arms dealer so awful that "douchebag" would be a step up for him, and a group of barely seen lackeys essentially playing a real life version of DOOM with VR gear and remote-controlled battle droids. Oh, and this all takes place in Chernobyl, but never mind the inherent dangers of THAT. The only way this film compares to "The A-Team" (and I mean the TV series) is the amount of undisciplined gunfire that doesn't hit anybody. The only way it compares to "The Expendables" is that nobody should have walked away. I couldn't even find it in myself to give this thing a star for the eye candy or the special effects. Two stars for simply having the stones to spend money making a piece of drek like this.

The person who made that analogy has obviously not watched much of the A-Team. there is no resemblance at all. Don't be allured by that click-bate as I was. This is an unremarkable story, as is much of the filming. About half way through I determined that I had better things to do. My score of 3 goes to the amount that I watched. The only character of interest is Alexandra Hayes played by Dominique Swain, She does a brilliant (10/10) job in a less than average story. But unfortunately does not save the movie. My score for the movie would have been 1 if it had not been for Dominique Swain's contribution. As the story progressed it seemed to regress to that of a video game. In summary, A great movie for people of low IQ

If you just sit down and watch. It's an enjoyable, action-packed movie. As a lover of action, I really enjoyed watching it. The stunts were off the chain! I appreciated the underlying humor and the cryptic remarks. The characters were solid and I was blown away by the fight scene. The fight choreographer knew what he was doing. I honestly don't understand the negative comments, to each their own. But the harshest criticism usually comes from those who are unskilled and untalented or those that don't understand what hard work is put into this kind of art and creativity.

I believe that if you can't say anything nice about something or someone don't say anything at all. That being said, this "movie" is a steaming pile of sexist garbage that has the look of hammered horsecrap. I got to the 10 minute mark, when all of the tough guys are belittling the only female on their crew of a-holes on her lack of education. What is this 1957? Expandables meets A-team? More like Excrement meets Screen. Not sure what I was expecting as this was directed by a guy who did stunts on Ultraviolet

Remember when Michael Pare was once a rising A-list movie star in major Hollywood releases? Well, that was such a long time ago, that I would understand why you may think that he has always slummed it in low budget B movies such as this one. Now, I definitely have nothing against B movies - I watch them all the time, and they can be pretty enjoyable at times. But this particular one, while far from the worst I have seen, is pretty bland stuff for the most part. Oh, the director does try to throw in some fancy camera tricks here and there(such as "bullet time" shots), but they come across as pretentious and in-your-face instead of being cool and blowing your mind. But that's not the real problem with this movie. The main problem with the movie is that while there is plenty of action, for the most part it has a very routine and familiar feel to it. It isn't exciting, it doesn't make you care for the protagonists' survival, and it isn't much better than simply showing people casually shooting their guns endlessly. The movie is fairly well photographed, but the pretty look of everything doesn't add much. Oh, and the title is wrong - it should have been pluralized.

While the film is nothing mindblowing, it does have a lot of very cool action sequences. The choreography isn't half bad, and the music is decent-to-good. There is a large emphasis on slow-mo, and the "unstoppable mercenary team" shtick isn't new to anybody who has seen The Expendables. Still, it's a surprisingly fun movie with a good ending.

I liked it. The movie didn't drag out. It was fast paced and there were delightfully humorous comments tossed in there. I read in another review where someone said they didn't like the acting? I disagree. For that type of movie, you aren't going to get that huggy, cuddly character development, it put its point across perfectly. I think Dan Southworth's acting is top notch. The character Shiro was perfectly believable, and we got to see Dan do martial arts and stunting, those scenes were breathtaking. I highly recommend it if for no other reason, seeing how amazing those fight scenes Dan himself choreographed!

It is as best as a B grade movie can get. simply loved the action , infact much better than expendables 2. The action sequences , the graphics, the fight scenes right on the mark. Music, cinematography... even if I bought a cinema ticket to watch it , I wound have a good time and not feel money or time wasted at all ....Best Advice dont compare it to any movie , it down and enjoy the show

Nothing here screams blockbuster, but a story that didn't seem too cheesy and characters that kept things moving and interesting. Save it for a night when want something with some action but that doesn't make you think too hard and enjoy.