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Having encountered The Asylum's TRANSMORPHERS, a TRANSFORMERS rip-off that was terrible in every respect, I had low hopes for this sequel, which turns out to be a prequel charting the rise of the machine menace. To my surprise this one turned out to be mildly entertaining, as long as you'd happy to overlook the continued and continuous flaws and problems. There's a lot of robot CGI here and it's a little better than in the first film, but the main improvement is the story itself. Scenes of characters being killed by their A.I. satnavs are a real hoot and the narrative does well to adopt a journey narrative with our hero characters striving to fight back against overwhelming odds. There's even an old timer, Bruce Boxleitner, who pops up in the cast. Bizarrely, the film was written by and stars none other than Shane Van Dyke, grandson of Dick, and it seems to be a labour of love for him. I'm not saying it's great, because it isn't, but it is better than expected.

My gosh my gosh my gosh. SO bad, it makes Twilight seem perfect. (And I didn't "Hate" Twilight. I thought it was OK, but had many many flaws) I wanted to believe that it was even a little better then the utter atrocity that was the Transmorphers. I was slightly right, BUT THE BOTH SUCK! Hard. the acting is slightly better, but everyone still over acts or under acts! But everything else, a rip off of terminator, Transformers 1 and 2, and The Matrix! I mean, the ripped transformers right down to Megatron, and I swear they actually said Megatron.

Final word, the film sucked, they both suck, don't watch it, because you won't ever get you're 90 minutes back.

1 out of 10 stars, wish I could rate it lower.

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This movie is virtually worthless, and I haven't seen one thing that appealed to me. I knew from the title that it had to be an Asylum production (I still say they'll come out with "Halloween on Elm Street" someday). Unoriginal idea, mish-mash plot that's full of holes, acting that rivals that of fifth grade school plays, and ho-hum effects. I do think, however, that the pace-maker "transmorpher" was probably a prototype replicator they borrowed from the set of SG-1, ha ha!

And what's with the sex scene? Seriously. Did they just drop this in the middle to wake up everyone bored to sleep? Or was the acting so bad that they couldn't create enough chemistry between the two love-birds that they figured a blatant screwing would get the point across to us doltish viewers?

For having no computers and no communications, they are certainly very well-informed about the terraforming stations in Japan and Bulgaria. I can't even get some of the people in my own department a few cubes away to keep me up to speed. I guess the transmorphers have one up on me.

So here we have these amazing, technologically advanced, super-robots from outer space that can fly, move quickly, terraform our planet, transform themselves into various machines, and shoot laser beams. Yet, oddly enough, a single gunshot wound to what would be their chest area will cause them to instantly explode.

The very worst part of this horrible waste of time, however, has to be the wretched conversation about the difference between how aliens differ from extraterrestrials. Yes, one character was stupid enough to ask this question, and another one was ever-so-kind to explain it to we, the uninformed. Aliens, those heathens, attack like enemies, whereas extraterrestrials will only attack like friends, meaning in defense. This drivel is perhaps the most contrived piece of verbal excrement I've had the misfortune of hearing and has no place in film. I wish MST3K would take a stab at this.

What's most disturbing, however, is that this is the SECOND one of these dreadful movies. The flushing of just about anything down a toilet and posting it on YouTube would probably be more entertaining than this... and I'd look forward to its sequel.

I'll start by acknowledging I did not watch it all, only made it forty minutes into this truly awful dreck. Also, though I use words like plot, story and movie I don't mean to imply that this movie has any plot or should be considered a movie, I merely refer to what the producers fantasized as a plot etc. Oh and this may contain spoilers if such a thing is possible for a movie this bad.

'Transmorphers FoM', with a name like that I knew I was not going to be getting premium fare though there was still a good chance of being entertained; many B movies are watchable like 'Suspect Device' with C. Thomas Howell or Grunner's dumb but fun efforts. So I stayed, however this was not B movie grade, was not even straight to DVD grade, heck this swill would struggle for the lofty heights of a gas station rack. It starts okay, an aerial pass over a city which looks quite good as some passable but formulaic epic score plays, however I'll be damned if I know what the opening had to do with the rest of it. It's completely random, they could have been in a bottle factory or segued from shots of wildlife to fishing and not be any less relevant to robot invasion. Alas that was this movie's only proper scene that I saw, as we got into the story the rot quickly set in. For some bizarre reason we spend half an hour rambling through a number of disjointed scenes that in many cases have almost no purpose, the only function was to randomly introduce main characters but in ways that did not really take the plot anywhere. For instance the kooky lead scientist is introduced via a coffee shop where she reads about the accident from the first scene. Why would this character react so strongly to this article and rush out the door with such urgency that she leaves her credit card behind without caring? Accidents are not unusual and she does not know the woman, the scene is pointless and nothing to do with the story. Or why does Boxleitner randomly ask the coroner out to dinner in one scene? We've not been given reason to suspect a romantic interest and I don't see any need for hamfistedly shoe horning in some tiresome, irrelevant to the story romantic interest for Boxy. It's like some dull witted drop out from film school thought the plot needed some levity even though practically nothing of any great peril has happened yet.

One thing evident from the opening scene is either, no one involved can act or could be bothered to make the effort, really, I have seen finer work in adverts, Enzyte Bob had more screen presence than these refugees from the wood mill. The NSA guy is particularly incompetent, delivering lines with an over wrought, wide-eyed exaggeration. His female subordinate fares little better, trying to look and sound sultry but coming off as chronically fatigued. Another obvious malaise is the stunning lack of story beyond that we know the bots will reveal themselves to an unsuspecting Terra. Everything happens without reason, Boxy is obsessed with the killer phone yet has no reason to have any concern for it, in fact the damn phone should have just scuttled off after the crash. Our military lad has no reason to conclude these bots are drones or hostile just because the satellite dish transformed. There are dozens of these non sequiturs, so many that there is no logical way the story being related could possibly occur. Nor is it long before our "writer" drags the ever favorite alien invasion go to plot device of Roswell. Coupled to this is lumpen dialog badly delivered and painful to listen to; above it claims there is a writer but nothing in this could be called writing, lettered vomit perhaps but not writing. Monkeys with typewriters could do better; hell I'd have more emotional response to the blurb on a box of matches.

Transmorphers effects could never be mistaken for 'special', the bots are awful works, it's 2009 and they look like CGI was just invented! Why in this day and age anyone would settle for such unconvincing rubbish is beyond me. Worse, they know it, hence most bot shots are them alone, sans humans, buildings and anything else they will look entirely fake in front of. The locations are no better. Here's a tip, if you cannot get stock footage of Edwards AFB or other airbase footage then don't bother. What you don't do is pass off a collection of storage tanks and non-descript refinery like industrial locale as one of the largest USAF airbases. The base got worse after the bots attack – though for no reason, it's not like they know who the characters are or should be concerned with them – and it vacillates between industrial to abandoned ground, same piece of concrete detritus over and over, the odd spurt of flame standing in for an explosion. It was during this unconvincing attack that the napalm grade stupid became too much and I changed channel.

Transmorphers is pure undiluted excrement, with nothing in its favor; the writing and story don't exist. Acting is pathetic, not outrageously hammy just soul sapping pathetic. The effects are a visual cesspool that urinate in your eye. This is not a movie, I don't know what it is or why Syfy ever paid money for its worthless hide. Forty minutes in I was flabbergasted, I honestly did not realize there are folks out there who are so lacking in self respect that they would not have burnt this blighted creation. Actually how in the hells was the script not burnt on first sight and the "writer" black listed for crimes against the written word? My advice, don't watch it, watch paint dry instead, it will be far more compelling, coherent and worthy of your time.

A small California town is annoyed by alien/domestic/ancient/modern transmorphers, RPDs, AVDs etc. It seems what they are is part of a confused plot point where we get to choose. While the government knows about it, it takes a core group of civilians to save the planet, or at least for the sequel, which magically had been made years earlier.

Jake (Shane Van Dyke), hub-cap aficionado, is ex-military and is an expert on these devices which allows him to blindly shoot at them like anyone else. His girlfriend "mini-dress" Maddy (Alana DiMaria) can run real fast and give us panty flashes (I love Blu-Ray quality). While her dad (Bruce Boxleitner) is the chief of police busy investigating phone cell murders.

I noticed the opening fonts had slanted letter "A"s except for some names like Cano and Michael which had upright "A"s. I tried to work that secret code into the film, i.e. like most coded Asylum films, but alas, could not. The film had elements of "Red Dawn" as our small band attempt to save the planet.

For the most part the film was boring.

Parental Guide: 2 F-bombs. Sex. Near nudity.

This was an ordeal to watch. The original 'Transmorpers' film was bearable (mainly due to Shaley Scott) but the plot of this prequel was disjointed and the dialogue quite risible. Even the cast seemed bemused (Torturing non-sentient robots!) sometimes at the words they had to utter, making huge assumptions for no reason. The best acting comes from Bruce Boxleitner as Officer Ryan but unfortunately his character is killed half way through. though he goes out as he probably wished; ramming a helicopter into a robot. The other actors don't make any impression, even Jennifer Rubin. Alana DiMaria as Madison was particularly annoying.

The CGI robots were not bad. The rest of the film is underwhelming.

Wow where to start. Hmmm CGI, bad but not terrible. I guess it is like a very bad Sci Fi network show for quality. The way, or rather the reason they blow up is hilarious.

Production value is pretty rough. They use the same old refinery from virtually all the Asylum movies. Actually they couldn't even scrape together their usual cast of ever returning actors. Seriously every movie has the same people playing small roles. It does give a certain continuity and ruins less careers I guess.

They even manage to get some actors not working for scale like Bruce Boxleitner. However he can not save this dog.

The camera crew does a decent job with what they have and the sound is OK. We are talking relative terms here. Ed Wood would call this a masterpiece, but it isn't.

One production issue I had a problem with and at this point it would be nitpicking given the nature of these films. Keep the main character's wound in the same spot OK. It was almost never in the same spot. For that matter do people run around covered in their own gore for days on end?

Which brings us to some other funny issues. The "scientist" gets a pipe put into her leg that they pull out while in the magical van that transmorphs from a 1994 Chrysler mini that the door wont shut on to a 2000 that is missing its wheel covers. So yes there was a transmorphing in the film. All while travelling very slowly(look out the window, trees are barely moving in the background...priceless) At least it was filmed in a vehicle. This character then limps for about half a scene before becoming pretty much fine. About on par with the girl in Cloverfield when pulled off the rebar.

There are so many weird things happening with script and plot you have to see it to believe it. But the most epic part is when the Mayor whos' daughter has an operation(as you are told over and over) ask the scientist about the difference between ETs and Aliens. All I can say is she must have been pretty drunk during the shoot and they wanted to wrap. She is wobbling around slurring and is kinda touchy feely. "Thanks for the respect" LOL. The lines that do come out are incoherent at best and require the Mayor to explain what she meant while one of the other characters is caught rolling her eyes. In fact Dr Drool has a plate magically appear in front where she tied her sweater around her hips after the slurring explanation of what friendly/enemy like bad and good creatures from space are. At this point the Mayor mentions how good he is at cooking. She then remembers her cue but not the location of said magical plate. After wobbling a bit and looking around behind her in both directions, she gets that excited look (like a kid getting a bowl of ice cream)when she find it tucked into the front of her pants.

I mean it has lots of funny moments but this was really the best for the 5 people who watched it with me. We had to re-watch it 3 times because we were crying so hard from the stupidity of the scene. "I guess thats a take eh!" Replied one of my buddies. The whole scene probably could have hit the cutting room floor. But it wouldn't have been a feature length film if they had tried to fix all the errors in this dog so why bother.

To be fair I would have been pretty drunk while filming this too. I hope they had fun filming it, because it is very funny in a "The Room" sort of way. Better than some other Asylum films and I did like it better than Paranormal Activity. I wish one of the MST3K groups would take a crack at the asylum movies. Pure gold as they are a self parody.

I gave it 4 for the effort and laughs, but its pretty bad, my official rating is 1 just so more people will see this ...um movie? Come on bottom 100. It really deserves to be there. Some of those movies don't come close to this bad. Gigli is terrible but at least it was produced and had some actors in it.

Saw this on Netflix late one night and decided to give it a whirl to see how bad it could be, and I wasn't disappointed. I can forgive movies made on shoestring budgets (Check out Clerks or El Mariachi) but the makers of this movie are not only untalented, they are creative looters: take a popular movie, rip it off, and give it a similar title. The reasons this movie are bad have been given in the other reviews: atrocious dialogue, bad acting, extreme lapses in logic and continuity, etc. Check these out:

1. The satellite man "transmorphs" then is only seen once again. And when you do, he drops from the sky in one of those "Matrixy" poses.

2. When the Nissan SUV (with the logo covered with black tape) spits out the dead driver, don't park it next to the crime scene for the next shot-check the license plate number, it's right there.

3. The title card describes an "Airforce" base. Sorry, folks, it's Air Force-2 words.

4. As the two government people drive the "doctor" in the Suburban, they go through a checkpoint, apparently into the "Airforce" base, then drive past the same checkpoint numerous times during their conversation.

5. Our hero fires not only his assault rifle, but his grenade launcher while sitting in the back seat of a pickup truck that has no roll-down back windows. And there is no brass ejected.

6. Our hero is known by the government agents as an expert in UAV operation. How they know that is unexplained, but no matter, the subject is never brought up again.

7. When the first robot attacks the Airforce base (which has no Air Force personnel), it is shown walking and shooting, and they use the same shot over and over and over and over again.

There is a place for low budget movies, such as the ones mentioned above, but at least put some effort into making a coherent script and story. Don't make a shallow ripoff.

I was going to give this movie 8/10, putting it on par with ZOMBIE OUTBREAK, BUGS BUGS BUGS OH NO, and THE English PATIENT - all strong entrants in their respective genres.

This would have been because Bruce Box-lightener is a personal hero of mine. As a collector of white and/or empty boxes, a man who spends his time making boxes lighter (in either sense of the word!) is really making my day. Every single day.

I owe Bruce so much.

However, during this film his character makes an uncharacteristically stupid decision to kill himself in order to destroy and already incapacitated Transmorpher. This is unbelievable. YES, Bruce attempted suicide in Babylon 5, but ALSO this was for a good reason AND he was brought back to life. Was it so much to ask for him to be brought back to life in this movie?! I can only assume they stopped being able to pay him his monies, which would be substantially large amounts of monies, as he is very talented.

I cannot believe a man like this exist: both lightening boxes and also acting so well.

I am so sad about this movie I had a little funeral for Bruce. I put a very small and very light box in a toy helicopter and it was sad.

This movie breaks your heart. Stay away unless you are an emo and like to feel bad.

"Transmorphers: Fall of Man," even by Asylum standards, qualifies as execrable from fade-in to fade-out. This obvious but egregious knock-off of Hasbro's "Transformers" franchise scrapes the bottom of the barrel, especially with its lackluster transmorphing effects. What modicum of value that this terrible tale possesses is the result of Bruce Boxleitner's presence as a policeman who wears his pistol on his left hip and has little use for cell phones. Everybody else, even Jennifer Rubin, deliver horrible performances. Indeed, they hit their marks and utter their dialogue without a shred of credibility. Director Scott Wheeler and scenarist/co-star Shane Van Dyke display little imagination in this prequel to Leigh Scott's "Transmorphers" (2005)and furnish nothing in the way of humor. The giant robots that menace our heroes appear to be fresh out of a pawn shop. Mind you, unlike the "Transformers" franchise, these giants boast no personality and their transformations are nothing to brag about.