Movie Review: The Terminators

The Terminators
The Asylum, USA, 2009.

A space station is overrun by hacked TR-cyborgs (Terminators). Another shipment of TR4-units (muscular Paul Logan) are coming to Earth. A task force tries to enter the space station to close the control computer TR5 but then they spend the rest of the film probably sitting in the space station closet. One of the space commandos is named Hicks by the way.

TR4

From the futuristic space war we proceed to the problems of regular people who are unaware of the threat. Chuck (Clint Browning) and Tiffany (Lucinda Rogers) want to get married but Chuck is still married to Chloe (Lauren Walsh). Charlie's (The Asylum regular Dean Kreyling) daughter Lucy is going to visit L.A. and he asks museum recommendations from Sheriff Reed (A Martinez). Suddenly they find themselves under attack and L.A. explodes not very spectacularly. TR4 destroys Charlie's car with a pole. Poor Charlie. Then TR4s start killing everyone they see. 

Charlie and Sheriff Reed

The Terminators

There goes Charlie.

The Sheriff and a group of survivors hide in an old factory. There is cigar-chomping Sam (Gary Miller-Youst), gun collector Pallas (Sara Tomko), nervous Bronson (Dustin Harnish), black girl Laura (Krystle Connor) and mother (Dana Tomasko?) who dies first. After the escape the survivors meet Kurt (Jeremy London) who knows how to stop the cyborgs. The plan involves stealing a spaceship and flying to space station to flip the on/off switch (really). 

Sam

Laura (left)

Pallas

Blatantly ripping off the Terminator-franchise, and adding some space combat a la "Battlestar Galactica" it is still surprisingly fun. It is not a good dilm in traditional sense but compared to usual Asylum products it is on the better side and the pace of the movie is right. Paul Logan looks as credible as Terminators and the effects seem to be used more creatively than in usual Asylums.

It even has a "Blade Runner" moment when one of the characters is revealed to be a cyborg. Then the character begins to talk like a robot. Then there are also plenty of random scenes, funny dialogue and non-purposeful explosions. For the fans of campy 80s and 90s cyborg films it should be moderately fun.

Chloe

Tiffany

Bronson

Kurt

The cover picture lies. There is only one of those exoskeleton cyborgs.

Rating: Good (as a cheap cyborg-film) /Bad (as a regular film)

Starring: Jeremy London, A Martinez, Paul Logan, Lauren Walsh, Sara Tomko, Dustin Harnish, Clint Browning, Lucinda Rogers, Mark Hengst, Gary Miller-Youst, Joel Hebner, Naómi Hurter, Russell Reynolds, Stephen Blackehart, Jason S. Gray, Dean Kreyling, Krystle Connor, Michael C. Parisi, Jason Yorrick, Justin Spanko, Geoff Stirling Jr., Dana Tomasko, Monique La Barr, Jay Plemons, Jay Beyers, Cole S. McKay, Elvis Naumovski, Edmond Choi, Conor Gomez, Debra Harrison-Lowe, Sex Henderson

Director: Xavier S. Puslowski