Earth has been conquered by robots from a distant galaxy, and survivors have been confined to their houses and must wear electronic implants, risking incineration by robot sentries if they venture outside.
In robot-occupied Britain, mainly One street, city centres are devastated and a gang of teenagers live in a seaside town constantly under robot threat, and Ben Kingsleys panto style villain.
Fairly intimidating sentries patrol the streets, and are merciless death machines, but they are nice enough to give you a five minute warning.
The Mediator is deceptively childlike but autonomous, promising everyone it will all be over soon.....
I was quite looking forward to this. I like the directors other movies, as they are tongue in cheek nods to their respective genres, so I was hoping that this would be also semi parody,me specially with the inclusion of Kingsley, who is always good for his ham.
But no, it's pretty serious all the way through, despite unintentional laughs, and the film cannot decide what it wants to be, despise 'homaging' almost every known TV series and film that is popular at the moment.
It's like a massive melting pot consisting of elements from The Walking Dead, Dr. Who, Transformers, Coronation Street, War of the Worlds, and those children film foundation movies we saw at school in the eighties.
But with all the fun and character detail taken away.
So we are left with a group of children looking for Steven Mackintosh, while dealing with a sub plot of Kinglsey trying to get it on with Gillian Anderson, which just doesn't seem right in a supposed family film.
And if things couldn't get any more incoherent, we then have Geraldine James and Tamer Hassan running some Burlesque type fight club for football supporters. And let's not mention the CGI boy..........strange.
So it had good intentions, but it's a bit of a mess. Maybe if they made it into a mini series and showed it on Saturday tea time just after the football results, maybe the characters could have been fleshed out, and it would have made more sense.
Oh wait a minute,they did that in the eighties with Tripods.
In robot-occupied Britain, mainly One street, city centres are devastated and a gang of teenagers live in a seaside town constantly under robot threat, and Ben Kingsleys panto style villain.
Fairly intimidating sentries patrol the streets, and are merciless death machines, but they are nice enough to give you a five minute warning.
The Mediator is deceptively childlike but autonomous, promising everyone it will all be over soon.....
I was quite looking forward to this. I like the directors other movies, as they are tongue in cheek nods to their respective genres, so I was hoping that this would be also semi parody,me specially with the inclusion of Kingsley, who is always good for his ham.
But no, it's pretty serious all the way through, despite unintentional laughs, and the film cannot decide what it wants to be, despise 'homaging' almost every known TV series and film that is popular at the moment.
It's like a massive melting pot consisting of elements from The Walking Dead, Dr. Who, Transformers, Coronation Street, War of the Worlds, and those children film foundation movies we saw at school in the eighties.
But with all the fun and character detail taken away.
So we are left with a group of children looking for Steven Mackintosh, while dealing with a sub plot of Kinglsey trying to get it on with Gillian Anderson, which just doesn't seem right in a supposed family film.
And if things couldn't get any more incoherent, we then have Geraldine James and Tamer Hassan running some Burlesque type fight club for football supporters. And let's not mention the CGI boy..........strange.
So it had good intentions, but it's a bit of a mess. Maybe if they made it into a mini series and showed it on Saturday tea time just after the football results, maybe the characters could have been fleshed out, and it would have made more sense.
Oh wait a minute,they did that in the eighties with Tripods.