Saturday, January 21, 2012

Screamers (1995)


Columbia Pictures
Directed by Christian Duguay
My rating: BOMB
IMDb
(DVD, Sony)
(Encore)

Philip K. Dick story is bastardized by Hollywood into cliche-ridden, macho-military characters who wander around a post-nuke planet inhabited by robots. The tired plot device of is-it-human or is-it-a-robot is run into the ground by multiple false endings. It is hard to care for any of these characters, human or robot. The computer generated special effects are laughably primitive, although there is an all-too-brief stop motion animated sequence.

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