Clevercell Very disappointing...

Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Leofwine_draca Yeah, it's a good question - and a rhetorical one too. Judging by the sub-SyFy Channel standard of A.I. ASSAULT, aka SHOCKWAVE, the answer's a definite "no", because this is Z-grade CGI trash through and through. The problem with A.I. ASSAULT is that it's saddled with an absolutely awful, lunk-headed script which starts nowhere and goes nowhere. The characters are cardboard cut-outs, the performances would stink in a porn film, and the direction is sub-par. In fact, the only thing good about the whole movie is a pair of alien robots which dominate the storyline.These creations are shamelessly lifted from Wells' original WAR OF THE WORLD, giant Tripod-things that go around butchering soldiers in various mildly gory (but inevitably cheesy) ways. They show promise, but the premise soon boils down to various characters wandering around an island somewhere, endlessly fighting them off and getting bumped off one by one. It's all very humdrum and by rote; the robots could be exchange for any movie monster in existence and it would all boil down to the same thing.The film's main selling point is the presence of a number of ex-STAR TREK actors who inevitably show up for brief cameos before disappearing again. An indelibly aged George Takei is here, along with Robert Picardo and Michael Dorn. B-movie favourite Tim Thomerson also appears as a stuffy army official. Sadly, none of these actors even come close to making A.I. ASSAULT anything approaching a decent movie.

Clay Loomis Wow, you ARE a picky bunch, aren't you? Look, this is a SciFi (now SyFy) channel movie. We all know what we're in for before the movie even starts. You can't compare it to the 100-200 million dollar theatrical releases. SyFy cranks these babies out on the cheap, and you get what you'd expect; SFX that can be done on home PC's, B and C grade actors, and older actors that are now out of fame and just looking for something to do.In this case they did a cool thing and brought in Star Trek alum from three versions of the franchise; Takei, from TOS, Dorn, from NG, and Picardo, from Voyager. SyFy offers these guys maybe $25,000 for a couple days work on what are, essentially, extended cameos. They sit around between shots, sipping martini's and reminiscing over the old times. They give half-baked performances, get one or two minutes of screen time each, cash their checks and go home. Hell, I'd do it. For their part, SyFy gets to use their names for promoting the film.As SyFy channel movies go, this one was OK. Fact is, I thought the SFX were better than in many of these little time-wasters. They go cheap and don't worry about details, like captain's bars on their collar and sergeant's stripes on their sleeve (this from one of the movies I saw a couple years ago). My favorite from this one is that all the Special Forces guys are carrying M16A2's, except one guy, who's using a 50 year old M16A1. Not a chance this would happen in real life, but to be honest, I think they do a lot of that stuff on purpose, to give guys like me the fun of spotting those errors.It's just campy fun, like Snakes On A Plane, and if you watch until the first commercial break you'll know the entire plot, and after that you can go to the bathroom, grab another beer, or answer the phone and have no fear that you'll miss a vital plot point.So lighten up, people. This fluff won't kill you, and let's face it, the other 80 channels are all filled with stuff like Real Housewives of Barstow, Law & Order reruns from the 1990's, and Tory Spelling movies (Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?).I'd say this was an average SyFy channel effort.

kidanubis This movie was identical to the Curse of the Komodo (http://imdb.com/title/tt0346811/), just change giant Komodo dragons with robots and right down to the helicopter with bank robbers and a race to defeat the robots and get off the island before it's nuked (but no Glori-Anne Gilbert boobage). There was even a brief, weird zombie-like scene. Coincidence? Nope. Both were directed by Jim Wynorski (http://imdb.com/name/nm0691061/).The effects weren't bad, but they never developed the plot thread that the robots got smarter the longer they were active. The intelligence level seemed pretty unchanged throughout the movie.Verdict: 1 robot tentacle out of 5

Jack Well, it's a new experience to watch a movie for the first time and be able to recite the dialogue before the actors say their lines. This movie shares the exact same plot, and about 10 pages of the script, with the movie Curse of the Komodo. The trouble is, Curse is one of the better B-movies I've seen, with excellent characters, a fun story, nice locations, and big breasted babes galore. This movie may or may not be good on its own, I don't know; I spent the whole time noticing how unfavorably it compared to it's predecessor. It didn't help that one of the leads in Curse had a small part in this movie, and he served as a constant reminder of how much personality those characters had, and how little everyone has in this film. It really kept me from enjoying this film. The story is fairly interesting overall. A group of H.G. Wells type tripods (or quadrupods in this case) are stomping around on an island, terrorizing the survivors of a plane crash and the military guys sent in to rescue them. The A.I. critters are done fairly well considering they're obvious CGI. I thought they added a nice '50 charm to the movie. Same with the cheesy '80s theme music, it reminded me a bit of Chopping Mall. Wynorski is a master of getting the most out of what he's got, and his cutting back and forth to the military commanders in Pearl Harbor keeps things moving every time the action starts to get a bit slow. The movie is chock full of the usual B-movie silliness - people firing 150 shots from a pistol without reloading, military guys standing right in front of the killer A.I. critters and firing another 150 shots without reloading, while the A.I. things can't seem to hit them with its lasers, but it can hit somebody else 100 yards away. Or the A.I. robot chasing a pickup, getting to within about 20 feet of it, but then the pickup pulls over to let the passengers off and the A.I. is nowhere to be seen. That stuff doesn't bother me, it's all B-movie goodness. I was just impressed to see that the F-16's DIDN'T change into F-14's in every other shot like they did in Curse of the Komodo. The main problem for me was the characters - they're just not very interesting. None of them distinguish themselves as anything more than the standard clichés. Maybe that was just because I was making the inevitable comparison to the really excellent characters in the previous movie; I don't know. The big climax at the end at least had a bit of originality to it, it wasn't just the usual large explosion that every Sci-Fi Channel original movie ends with.Overall, for a Sci-Fi Channel original, it wasn't too bad. I'd say it rates in the top 20 or 30 percent of their output. It needed more boobs though.