Transmorphers

Review by DeepSeven

(Asylum Pictures starring Scott Leigh) Let me say up front that I did not watch every minute of this DVD movie. So you are not going to get my typical review. After the first 10 minutes the sound became about a second off. It looked like I was watching a dubbed movie. Thank goodness there was only 1 minute of action in the first 42 minutes of movie, or else the shots fired would have been off. This of course made the first 42 minutes seam like an episode or two of “Days of Our Lives”. I watched most of this in fast forward because I did not care to learn of the internal strife that was happening between the different characters, and who was in love with whom.

After the first half of the movie some actual action started. The humans that live underground because the machine made the sky dark (sound familiar?) launch an attack. The machines or “transmorphers” are robots that can transform into a robot with a gun on its head and then transform back into just a robot holding a gun… Even here, not all of the sound effect got scored. So you see a lot of soldiers and robots shooting silent guns and silent explosions.

There is not much more I can say about this DVD. It did have a lot of extras, including a blooper reel and commentary track. It also had trailers for the other Asylum films including “Supercroc” which is also reviewed on Skullring.org. My final thought is that this movie was rushed in editing. It could have been much better with what they had already. The CGI was very nicely done and the props were top notch. Even the acting was pretty good. They just churned it out to hit the shelves at the same time as “Transformers” hit the theaters and that was their mistake in my opinion. Skip it.