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Bruce may have saved babylon 5, but he couldn't save this. I've seen worse cgi (it's actually decent!) and mildly worse acting. Bruce can act as always, he's the only reason I didn't give this a 1 out of 10. His part taken on it's own is the only redeeming part of them film, and if you ignore everything else it's okay (if you figure out how please tell me) but whoever wrote this script has to be someone's inbred nephew/grandson trying to earn his food while locked in the basement, holy moronic batman. After what I thought was the end...it got worse.. i started jumping forward to the end.. i'm still watchin the last of it in the corner of my screen now... oh well, at least um...ya i don't know, i have to.. go .. um.. i think me gotten dummerer after watchy ow ow inside head hurt... no give food basement monkey, him bad, him make thinker owy bad

If you are unfamiliar with Asylum then welcome to the world of the C film. As you can imagine its a step down from B films and if you happened to think that there couldn't possibly be anything worse than B films, Well you were wrong. It will all become painfully clear after you watch one of these films. Its important to note that Asylum don't create their own material at least not in the sense that most studios do. Asylum basically make rip off's of popular Hollywood films and try and capitalize on that popularity by releasing the film very close to the Hollywood films release date. Most of the press refers to them as "Mockbusters". For example Transmorphers is, as you can imagine, based off of the Transformer movies and both of the Transmorpher films came out right around the same time as their Hollywood counterparts. Just look up a complete list of Asylum films and you should easily be able to figure out which Hollywood film each Asylum title is based off of. Asylum films are low budget and are released straight to video.

As for this film, it is a sequel to the first transmorphers and in all honesty is equally as bad as the original was. It stars Bruce Boxleitner,who has done a number of Asylum films, and his performance is as bad as one would expect from these types of films. Its almost as if Bruce knows this film is going to be terrible so he doesn't even bother trying to give a worthy performance. He is there for the paycheck. As bad as the acting is it is trumped by the absolutely horrid special effects and this is something that really boggles my mind as we have now gotten to the point where high quality special effects can be done on a 2000-3000 dollar computer. I am betting I could do better special effects on the Mac I am using right now.

The bottom line is I have seen a bunch of Asylum films, more out of curiosity than for entertainment value and each time I watch one of these films I am left absolutely speechless. The one question that I ask every single time is how does this studio stay in business. I understand that these are low budget films thus they don't need to make a lot of money to break even or even to make a profit however I am absolutely shocked that there are people out there that are willing to continually buy these films. You know the famous saying, "fool me one shame on you, fool me twice shame on me", well that has never been more true than in regards to supporting this company by buying their films. I can see some people getting duped once after all I am betting some people actually mistake them for their Hollywood counterparts however to go back and buy another and another is just absolutely mind boggling. This is in all honesty the very bottom rung for motion picture entertainment. Even Uwe Boll's movies are like Oscar winning films compared to these films and his films are rated some of the worst movies ever to be made.

Save your time and money and pass on anything that has the Asylum logo on it. I guarantee you will wish you had by the time credits start rolling, that is if you can even make it that far.

After watching the first half of this tedious flick I am convinced that there should be a new class of distribution worse than DTV (Direct To Video) I propose the new designation should be DTDB (Direct To Dollar Bin). This movie definitely belongs there. As others have noted the special effects are worse than atrocious. They could have used an etch-a-sketch and gotten better results. I can only assume that Bruce Boxleitner owed someone a large favor to have appeared in this production.

This production is so bad, it even falls below the standards for the Sci-Fi Channel made for TV stuff. The only way this could have been worse is if it was animated, and the cels were drawn using crayons.

The basic story concept, as you can imagine from the title, is basically the same as "Transformers", a far better movie than this could ever hope to be.

If you wish to see how movies should NOT be made then rent this. With luck you'll find it in the dollar bin and expense will be minimal. The best use for this CD would be as a target at a rifle range.

I know what to expect from Asylum - dreadful nonsense that trades off current cinematic trends. But with this one, I almost dared to hope that they might have put some effort in.

The first 30 minutes or so are almost acceptable - the build-up is slow and disjointed, but most of the over-acting is kept to a minimum, and some of the effects actually look as though somebody actually tried to produce something worthy. Some effects sequences are actually fairly effective - though many others are awful.

Unfortunately, whatever small amount of promise may have existed early on, it all falls apart after 30 minutes, with really poor dialogue, laughable acting, lame plotting, and some terrible visual effects.

It does have some unintentional comedy value, as you might expect - much of the dialogue is staggeringly bad. At one point, a woman tells our heroes that she investigates "unexplained events of the terrestrial nature". That is a direct quote.

One minor character asks her how aliens differ from extraterrestrials - quite why anybody would ask such a stupid question is unexplained, but her answer is absolutely mind-boggling. She explains that extraterrestrials attack like a friend, whereas aliens attack like enemies. I challenge anyone to find a more stupid piece of dialogue in any science fiction movie of the past ten years. It's hard to imagine anything more utterly devoid of meaning or sense.

It's a shame, because if this film shows anything, it's that Asylum probably have the resources to produce some decent films if they wanted to. But first, they would need to employ someone who has good ideas, and is capable of translating them into a movie that follows the long-established conventions of storytelling. This film throws out the rulebook in favour of cobbling together events and characters in seemingly random order. They also need talented script writers, or at least skilled script editors.

In summary, I could live with the constraints of a poor budget, if it told a good story. Many great sci-fi stories have been told on a very limited budget - but this really is useless, and I suspect the reason is that very few people at Asylum could care less what anybody thinks, as long as they make a few dollars profit on each tiresome knock-off.

One plus point - it's better than the first Transmorphers film.

The title of the movie suits it, it is really THE FALL OF MAN when this movie created. Take note its a 2009 movie and the effects sucks big time! i better watch Latin soaps which i can understand a thing, but appreciate the sexy actress.

Not worth to even RENT this film, but if you wish to see ROBOTS made of rubber then this is your movie.

i would rate this move -999999999 i rather play TETRIS than watch this movie, if u may call it a movie?

comments suggest that it must be 10 lines :((

sorry IMDb but my 10 line will be

it sucks big time

effects sucks dunno if you may call it effects

don't rent it

better watch tom and jerry

There is really not much good to be said about this movie.

Now, I haven't watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen yet, as reviews are not that good (to say the least), but I decided to watch TransMorphers Fall of man, thinking it would be something of a funny parody of the two Transformers movies.

I couldn't have been more deluded. TransMorphers is a cheap, very cheap knock off of its eponymous titles, without the budget, the cast or the FX. Actually here, the FX are extremely bad, pathetic even. The scenario is as poor as could be expected, and sadly, where Transformers may manage to keep you awake thanks to its eye candy and loud explosions, Transmorphers will not even manage that.

Quite a pathetic attempt really. 2/10 for the cast. Some of the actors are not too bad.

I didn't think it would be possible, but this movie is actually worse than Transformers 2! This is not a parody of the Transformers movies or other action movies as the title may lead you to believe. It's actually (as far as I can tell) a serious attempt at creating an action/adventure in which humans come under attack by transforming robotic creatures and must fight back!

Basically they took many of the essential elements that make up the Transformers franchise and repackaged them into their own movie. This has the benefit of removing Michael Bay from the equation, but is done at the expense of hiring convincing actors and high budget special effects. Unfortunately, the script is just as poorly written as that for Transformers 2!

Now there are some out there who actually enjoy low-budget B-movies with cheesy special effects and poor acting. Sadly, the special effects were actually done on a high enough level where despite being slightly cheesy they're actually not that disappointing. Also, despite some of the acting being poor it's not bad enough to be entertaining for that reason and although the story is full of holes they're just not presented in a way where it might be easy for you to amuse yourself with them.

Overall a bad movie, but even if you're in the mood for a "bad" movie I suspect you'll still be disappointed by Transmorphers Fall of Man!

Nothing good about it, the first transmorphes was bad but it was funny bad.....this ones just boring, the plot makes no sense, the acting is horrible, the "special effects" are god awful. Do not watch this film it's not worth your time!

Starring: Bruce Boxleitner,Jennifer Rubin and Shane Van Dyke. Get all that "Bad Juju" out of your head when guessing what you're about to watch. This go-a-round is much better than original? TRANSMORPHERS ! Wanted Shane to resemble his granndfather(Dick Van Dyke),But actually half way thru noticed a definite Michael Bay slanted appearance,Not to be outdone female lead could pass for Megan Fox,And mayor of town resembles Obama. Special effects are great and explosive,You'll never look at a cellphone,SUV or Pacemaker the same way without squinting. Jennifer Rubin returns to movies and We have missed her eyes and allure. Bruce Boxleitner is great as the seasoned hero and has a wonderful moment witha CGI helicopter.

I could not believe one of the "Transformers" movies had ended up so quickly on TV, not to mention on the no-budget Sci-Fi Channel. Then it began to dawn on me, especially when Shia LaBoeuf failed to appear and Bruce Boxleitner did: I was actually watching a ripoff of the big-budget movie, and an Asylum flick to boot. Horrible! It's men versus killer robots, except it's mostly men (and a woman or two) standing around, talking about killer robots. And the robots that do turn up are just plain silly looking. I wanted to claw my eyes out. But I did the next best thing and turned the damned thing off. I hope you will do the same.,

Movie titles can not be copyrighted . This is why The Asylum , the film company that has a monopoly on " mockbusters " can get away with bringing out film titles that are almost identical to Hollywood blockbusters . What is amazing is that they use ideas and designs that are so obviously based on other movies . It's well known that Harlan Ellison sued Jemes Cameron claiming that THE TERMINATOR ripped off a couple of episodes that Ellison scripted for THE OUTER LIMITS . Cameron and Hemdale Films settled out of court though if you've seen the episodes in question you might be shocked that anyone considered Cameron is supposed to have stolen anyone's idea . Indeed if the film resembles anything it's the 1972 DOCTOR WHO story Day Of The Daleks and Louis Marks didn't feel the need to go running to a lawyer ..

Knowing this you will find yourself asking why Cameron amongst others didn't feel the need to contact lawyers to make an undeserved fast buck ? Perhaps they did but thought better of it since they felt that'd be similar to beating up a man in a wheelchair ? It's not so much the TRANSMORPHERS that gives away the plot but :

TRANSMORPHERS 2 : FALL OF MAN

Has anyone noticed it seems rather similar to :

TERMINATOR 3 : RISE OF THE MACHINES

And this is what the film essentially is - a blatant reworking of TERMINATOR 3 with TRANSFORMERS , MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE and HALOWEEN 3 SEASON OF THE WITCH thrown in to the predictable , unoriginal mix . We have a scene where a satellite dish turns in to a terminator and you are absolutely left in no doubt what so ever that it's a terminator . Same as later on a car turns in to a transformer and you can't help shouting " Transmorphers other films in disguise

Despite the amount of " intellectual property borrowing " going on it's the production values and storytelling that bring the film down . Everything has to be force fed to the audience as in

Character A : Wow , we're dealing with a technical complicated thingy

Character B : what's a technical complicated thingy ?

Character C : It's a thing that's technical and complicated

with the lines being spoken in the most uninterested dispassionate way possible . Boxleitner and Rubin are fairly well known and give the least worst performances in a cast who are attractive but laughably wooden . I looked up the ensemble cast genuinely expecting their resumes to have included what is euphemistically known as " adult films " but found very few of the cast have appeared in more than a handful of unknown movies . I doubt if any of the cast will go on to major roles

I'll be honest here and state that TRANSMORPHERS 2 is a very mediocre film but no more or less than that , though admittedly the good concepts are culled from other superior movies . The SyFy channel in Britain is showing a week of mockbuster films and it's by no means the worst one I've seen . Sadly something tells me SyFy will be broadcasting films much worse

A cell phone turns into a Mini-Me Transformer--I mean, Transmorpher. It zaps a dim witted girl in a convertible, then also eradicates some idiot in a van. At this point, I was pulling for the 'Morphers. They were only doing away with fools, anyway.

Red flags pop up everywhere with the film's title. This movie is every bit the joke you'd expect from one that packages a morphed title of a recent big-budget film (which was a poor movie to begin with). With a budget of about 99 cents, it's just about as novice and amateurish a production as you'll see. To begin with, there's really no plot; nothing is connected in any way.

The robots pop up at random, and the CGI quality varies, as does the power of the 'bots. One minute they're impervious to rocket missiles, the next minute a wild pistol shot from a moving car at extreme distance can bring it down. The bullet-induced Morph explosions were way over done and absolutely hilarious. I love how the Morphers also recoil from projectiles that visibly haven't even hit them yet.

The only name actor exits early, leaving the Drama 1A drop-outs to stage weird scenes. The romantic interlude is churned out poorly, maybe just to increase running time. You knew what was coming for most every character, who all seem to be parodies of themselves. In particular, the guy that talked about how "Russians tortured one of these things until it surrendered its memory chip." I laughed so hard I had stomach convulsions. Speaking of the Morphers themselves, they appear to be doing Three Stooges impressions. First they sneak up on victims and beam lasers from behind; then in later scenes they just stand around gawking stupidly.

So utterly stupid. It's an Asylum flick, so have a Conkla Cola and a McDanny's Big Quack for snacks to munch while you laugh at this.

Notice that I didn't say this feature was better than the first feature, just not as bad. As before, a motley crew of actors are culled together to try their hand at acting. They even had enough money in the budget to hire Bruce Boxleitner for half a movie before he left in fear of being recognized. Now if this was a school class where the teacher was grading on a curve, it would have been great to have Bruce pull up the "acting experience curve." For this film however, it made zero difference and the cast's acting was painfully inadequate. The story, what little of it flipped flopped around with little cohesion. Special effects are primitive looking and seems on the level with "claymation." In summary, the story is weak, acting is weak, affects are weak..... If you want to see a movie with killer robots, try the "Terminator" series.

By all means, I have seen worse of The Asylum/SyFy's output, but considering the awfulness of Transmorphers: Fall of Man it is little consolation. For starters, the film does look cheap, the editing is slapdash, the effects are delivered with no clarity and the robots with their unnatural movements look as though they were constructed in a hurry. The script is just a disorganised mess of clichéd and cheesy lines, the story is incredibly predictable and tedious, the characters are written in such an underwritten and poor way you cannot connect with them and the direction is sloppy. And need I say the acting is is just terrible particularly from Shane Van Dyke, nobody utter their lines with conviction and a few of them seem as though they are struggling to keep a straight face. Overall, just a horrendous movie. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Oh Asylum, why do I continue to try and watch your films. I mean, sure Paranormal Entity was descent and Gacy house wasn't that bad, but everything else I've seen is just so bad. Battle Of Los Angelas I couldn't even finish, Monster made me angry, and I literally didn't take in any of The day the earth Stopped. And now we have Transmorphers 2, prequel to trasmorphers (which I've only seen the Bad Movie Beatdown of).

Well, where to begin, to be honest, this review should be short, because the film is so completely forgettable. First of all the story is just stupid, but hey, I can get over that. The special effects range from "Meh" to terrible, and the acting isn't good. The film also seems to rip off more of the first Transformers and the Terminator. And the worst part of the movie is that it is boring. I literally wanted to turn it off 20 minutes in. Some may defend it, well at least it's short, and at least it didn't cost 200,000,000 dollars. So what, if a movie sucks, it still sucks.

The way I see it, the only reason anyone would like this movie is either they are related to/worked on the movie. Or you hate Transformers 2 with so much passion, I don't mean just hate it, no, I mean call it the worst movie you've ever seen. In other words, Spoony and his loyal followers. F**k this movie.

1.5/10