Age Of Tomorrow

Age Of Tomorrow

After the borderline breakdown I endured with the movie Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark the other year, I thought it was time to reconsider my stance on The Asylum. And I really shouldn’t have, but I did base this next go on the cover of the film on its artwork.

I was mostly persuaded to get this movie because of a picture that I mistook for Kelly Hu, with black glossy eyes and a face like an ancient chipped renaissance painting. But most of all, there were no signs of sharks being present in the film anywhere. Done and done, I thought. Then I proceeded to the synopsis, which promised a really engaging showdown between humans and alien invaders. It specified that a group of military and scientists sailed to engage the threat ‘from the inside out’.

So at that time, I’m think, cool, maybe Kelly Hu will end up somehow like a Zerg Queen or Sarah Kerrigan from the Starcraft video game series. But as you might have guessed, that picture had nothing to do with the actual movie. That was by far my biggest let down of this film.

Like many of Asylum’s films, this particular one also featured well known names such as Kelly Hu, Anthony Marks and Robert Picardo. My only complaint is that there was no script. And if there was, it was ridiculous. This film had everything to be good, yet was utterly predictable.

The plot was simply this extremely crude rip off. It incorporates almost all other sci-fi films including Starship Troopers, Armageddon, Independence Day, Stargate, Aliens, War of the Worlds (and a dash of Phantasm). They behave as if they are the only ones who originate everything of worth, which might be the case in most sci fi films, but here it was so blatant that you knew that it was by design. This film is meant to be in the vein of Edge of Tomorrow, which interestingly enough has a title that is close to this movie.

The narrative breakdown surely boosted a negative effect in my expectations towards this film. For instance, there is a sequence when they mention that the meteor was supposed to be 10,000 kilometers away from the Earth and then all of a sudden the meteor which was supposed to have the ship lands to the extreme gently begins to come on a collision course with the meteor.

Shouldn’t such events result in the separation of the ship and the meteor? And as for the alien orbs I could not comprehend their purpose as well. One scene they’re moving targets. In the next they’re wreaking havoc of some sort. There’s also this part where the group walks into a fire baggage, and meets a man named Tim Casey. He goes from being unconcerned with whatever is happening outside his house to all of a sudden wanting to check on his family (even mentioning that the power was off which apparently wasn’t an issue for him earlier).

My score for this film is a 1.25 over 5. I would warn anybody against watching this film.

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