This is a terrible movie. I couldn't even make fun of it. It's like a really bad episode of the Twilight Zone. If you are a sci-fi fan, the story and subsequent plot holes will infuriate you.The most exciting part of the story is the war of 11 days in which the Robot Overlords managed to conquer humanity. This pinnacle event is told and not shown in 3 lines of text over a black background.Flash forward to the dystopian future where humanity has been placed under house arrest for 4 years. Cabin fever is at a peak as humanity struggles by being fit, apparently well fed, cleanly groomed with access to showers, beauty products, and laundered, tailored designer clothing. How will humanity escape their implants which may or may not do something? How do our heroes not suffer permanent damage from being repeatedly electrocuted? What is the robot master plan?Use your imagination, you will probably come up with something better

We all love a great big robot with a throbbing piece (I meant a gun)and this film has them – by the bucket load – or is that 'circuit board load? Set in the UK (actually filmed mostly in Northern Ireland) we have been invaded by huge robots – who just like politicians 'never lie'. They are here to study all life forms and have imposed a curfew on all humans – except the Quisling types who actively collaborate – led by a sneeringly objectionable Ben Kingsley. ** Plot Spoiler a bit further down** People are monitored by some sort of electronic tag that alerts the nasty machines if you do anything naughty and they come after you. Well if you are caught doing anything these robots don't like then you are sort of vaporised. Then the heroes – all kids – discover how to turn their tags off (like some of the crims we currently do this to). Then off they go on their plucky way to reunite families, start a resistance and save the world!Is this any good though? Well no its utter rubbish and it knows it and that is why it is great fun. On the check list there are all the ingredients. • An unambiguously evil enemy? –Check. • Over the top performances straight out of Victorian melodrama? – Check. • Some big names? – Check and double check – Gillian 'X Files' Anderson is the mum! • References to how great Britain used to be? –Check – even got a Spitfire!! • Ludicrous stunts that defy death and gravity? – Completely Check! • Pesky kids straight out of Scooby Doo? – Just keep those checks coming.But as I said it does all this on purpose and so it is not only forgivable it is actually endearing, you can watch this with the kids, mind you they may say you need to watch something more adult. Also it is a perfect length at 90 minutes – for some good old fashioned sciency fictiony fun, then you can't go far wrong with this.

Robot Overlords...a look at the poster made me expect something along the lines of Sharknado or some Z-level movie. Oh wait...it's got Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson...in a cheap movie about alien Robots. Huh? OK, it wasn't supercheap with a budget of 21m$ but the VFX look like they tried their best but they just don't look real (but not bad either). The thing is: the story is nothing special, in fact it's rather lame. So one has to wonder why Anderson & Kingsley wanted to play in this. They both must have lots of bills to pay I guess. I can't imagine they read the script and jumped on their phone to convince their agent to get them a part in the film. We can conclude that this film hardly adds anything to the genre, the acting is okay and the effects aren't bad but it really does not stand out in any way so I find it hard to recommend this flick.

Unbelievably bad. Insultingly so. Not camp, or funny, or art house, or anything of the sort, just bad. Bad effects. Horrible plot. Atrocious acting. Etc. Sir Ben, what were you thinking? I saw him on a talk show the other night and wish the host would have asked him about this turd. Embarrassing to everybody involved, including me the viewer. The crux of the movie is that super advanced robots have taken over the world and install chips in the heads of the few remaining humans to keep tabs on them. If people go outside without permission, the robots kill them. That is until some young children figure out that all you have to do to override the chips is to zap them with some low voltage electricity and then you're free to wander around all you want. Really, no government scientist, PhD in electronics, crazy survivalist, etc. had every tried tinkering with the robot control chips before? And then to think that some 6 year old could thwart the super advanced alien race that has already taken over this world and others? And on that note, robots and aliens are different things. Why is this movie about really simple robot aliens w/o any mention of actual aliens? Weak!