I am going to go against the grain of pretty much every review I have read with this...
TROF fucking owns. It's not Reign in Blood, but it could definitely be Seasons of the Abyss. My experience with the film went something like this.
At 2 PM the lights went down. Roll Harry Potter trailer...doesn't look bad, but *yawn* magic/wizards is not my deal. Then blam, straight into TROF. The film is basically structured like a video game. Short objectives and plot elements are dropped in between scene after scene of robots annihilating factories, houses, cities, aircraft carriers, you name it. There's a lot more of the robots and the humans are way more tolerable because..well there's more of the robots.
I've read many times this movie has no story. I think it has a solid, if a bit simplistic, story that moves at a breakneck pace. There's a few continuity errors, but nothing that seriously breaks/detracts from the experience of 50 foot robots raging full spectrum warfare.
Probably the best testament to the pacing was that when the lights came up, the only indication that 2.5 hours was that I had to take a leak. Bad. I wasn't alone either. The line for the toilets was well into the concession area ^o^
So yes, it's not written as well as it could be, but seriously...are there any well written scifi movie epics other than Alien/Aliens/Alien3?
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