Monsters Of Man

Monsters Of Man

As we follow the link, we see another world about to unfold, where mankind is pushed into darkness. Full of innovation, just techniques to push the envelope, we witness the world of new age warfare. In this film, we find ourselves dealing with day invasions, surrogate assassins and robots fighting humans.

Review: There was another level of anticipation for Monsters of Man as the film came into my sight courtesy of its Indiegogo campaign. They have 9 funding days left and there’s still a possibility they might reach their goal. It is pleasing to learn about the lengths people will go to in order to realis their dreams, thus I couldn’t wait to see them all in action on screen.

As an indie film, most performances are strong and writer and director Mark Toia doesn’t shy away from building empathy by giving us some insight into our group of doctors’ who by the way kill drug traffickers but are then chased by the C.I.A. in a cover up situation. The audience is introduced to the characters of the movie and bored with the introduction then rush to start the action and get a clear idea of what’s going on.

In my opinion, Ly Ty performed wonderfully as (the kid in the red t-shirt) Leap who looks truly tormented by the death of his family member. He adds heart to the tale and Toia should be praised for attempting to shed some light on these characters and their violent consequences. It does not always work on everyone, and some scenes are simply too long to be enjoyable, and they did at times pull me out of it.

As far as violence goes there is plenty of it as the robots slash through the jungle absolutely annihilating anyone in sight which gives off a Terminator meets Predator kind of impression.

Once again Neal McDonough does not disappoint in playing a villain and proves he is a gifted actor once more. He is captivating wherever he appears on screen and brings some much-needed star appeal to this otherwise largely unknown cast.

In terms of raising awareness about the threat posed by A.I, the movie takes a sympathetic approach towards mankind arguing that we are the real monsters. While watching the movie I was struck by the fact that one of the robots became conscious and started to understand life.

These moments from the film captivated me more as the robots were more fascinating than most of the human personalities; the doctors in general are cannon fodder for the robots. Since they were mostly irritating, I was never particularly upset whenever they were killed. There are a few character choices that are incredibly stupid and make no sense one scene features the robot being cornered and having a gun right next to it yet no doctors and Mason consider grabbing the gun.

Excluding all that, Monsters of Man has quite a few good points; the robots look awesome and the rendering is superior than most blockbuster films. The choreography of the action scenes is impressive yet in the second half of the film it became a bit monotonous as it, like every other film nowadays, was stretched beyond what is necessary.

The music score sometimes could best be described as the horn of the apocalypse which assisted in establishing that sense of danger; the problem is that the sound of the gunfire is also extremely loud so you are made to feel that these are relentless arms of destruction.

I was eager to embrace Monsters of Man, but sadly, I was only mildly impressed. There are hardly any characters that stick in your mind and it pretty much drags in pace. The robots themselves are completely badass and the hard R violence is enough reason to make it a watch.

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