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Introduction

 
Ultimate killing machine boy meets moody girl and they kill things.  That's about it in a nutshell, but I'm guessing you want a bit more detail than that, right?  OK, but don't say I didn't warn you…
 
A rather right wing Government sometime in the near future decides that the way to stem the rising tide of lawlessness is to develop a drone police, clones who have no feelings or conscience.  Sat alongside the police as partners in the beginning, they then replace them completely and ultimately decide that the world would just be better off without humans altogether.  So they do what any self-respecting clone army does, they arm themselves with automatic weapons and start killing people.
 


The last defence for man was the EE 700, an elite squad of electronically enhanced Special Forces soldiers.  Sadly, this elite were no match for the drones in their matching paintball costumes and are essentially wiped out in a matter of minutes, and this is despite a huge morale boosting speech by the mad Colonel Norton (Keith David).
 
Luckily for mankind, one man is left standing.  This man is super soldier Tallus (Don 'The Dragon' Wilson), a man who doesn't need a personality as his rifle scope does all the talking instead, and boy, does she go on and on and…


 
Super soldier Tallus wanders through the post-apocalyptic world shooting and blowing things up, leaving behind his last surviving comrade Anchilles (Bokeem Woodbine) before meeting up with a wounded resistance fighter known only as Girl (Katee Sackhoff).  Girl decides that a little horizontal action is only fair for a super soldier who has lived only to fight since he was eight, in return Tallus teaches Girl all he knows and they go out to kick some arse…
 

Extras

 
Trailer - if you see this first, you're likely to avoid the film itself, so pray you see it on a disc near you soon…
 
Behind The Scenes - rather bland and unimaginative
 

Overall

 
God, this was bad.  I've seen some crap in my time, same as everyone at Reviewer Towers, but this is shooting straight to the top of the Worst Films list.  I thought this may be at least a little good with Katee Sackhoff in the lead role, but the PR blurb was a little misleading (to say the least) as she's not even in the film for more that about a third of it.
 
Don 'The Dragon' Wilson can't act at all, something he probably recognises and certainly his director does as all the exposition and main dialogue goes to his rifle (Dawnn Lewis).  This is a little reminiscent, and it really pains me to say this, of the 2000AD character Rogue Trooper, but this is nowhere near in the same class.  Keith David puts in a completely over the top performance and Bokeem Woodbine sensibly keeps his involvement to the minimum.
 


If I were to sum up this film, then I'd say that this is an attempt to put a budget first person shooter video game on celluloid.  It really does play like that, even down to the inclusion of cut scenes to signify past memories and a pitiful attempt at back story to lessen the confusion for the viewer.  The action scenes play exactly as an FPS, all the good guys run straight towards the bad guys, spraying and praying, rather than following normal military tactics (or even using grenades instead of just shooting).  The bad guys are your typical AI opponents, they stand in big clumps and can't shoot straight.  And thousands of them just appear from nowhere.  Well, maybe not thousands, it'll be the same set of extras as they're all nicely hidden behind the budget Stormtrooper-esque costumes.
 


Aside from some roof-top scenes in the middle of LA, the majority of the film is shot on a studio backlot and in the typical disused and abandoned industrial site.  It's low budget and it shows.  The film is also incredibly grainy in places and the pyrotechnics are not convincing in any way.
 
Please avoid.