AE: Apocalypse Earth

2013 "The battle for mankind will not be on earth"
3.4| 1h27m| en| More Info
Released: 28 May 2013 Released
Producted By: The Asylum
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.

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Pluskylang Great Film overall
Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.
TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Rob_Taylor Okay, so it wasn't that good. Plus, it is an Asylum film, so I wasn't expecting much when I sat down to watch it. But, all things considered, it wasn't dreadful. In fact, it hung together reasonably well.Sure, there is dodgy CGI, poor acting (especially from the guy who looked a little like Peter Lorre), weak dialogue and plot that we've all seen hundreds of times before. However, it's just the right side of "meh!" to avoid being an awful mess.Adrian Paul and Richard Grieco are easily the best actors on screen in this one which, admittedly, doesn't say a lot, but they give reasonable performances. The others manage varying degrees of incompetence, but no one really stinks.The guy tasked with playing the android clearly loves Star Trek, though, and that made me laugh more than the Avatar girl did. Original, this isn't, but it takes several movies and shows (Star Trek, Avatar, Predator, After Earth etc.) and manages to make something entertaining out of them.I know what you're thinking.... Asylum movie... right? But they have been getting better slowly. Considering the budget, it's a decent effort, even with the toy guns as props.If you think how many big budget movies get made and then stink the theatre out with their badness, this ain't so terrible! SUMMARY: You won't watch it twice, but it is a long way from horrible.
TheLittleSongbird That is saying very little however as After Earth was so poorly done, the worst movie personally seen so far this year with one of the worst ever child performances. As bad as it is though it is a masterpiece compared to the irredeemable dreck that is AE: Apocalypse Earth, one of those Asylum mock-busters that happens to "taking inspiration from" After Earth. AE: Apocalypse Earth is not quite down there with The Asylum's worst movies but it's in the lower end. If there is one glint of a redeeming quality it's some competent photography at the end. Visually, it is not good at all and that it's low-budget comes through loud and clear. The scenery is very dully rendered and lit, never once drawing us into the setting, while the special effects look as they were made last minute and that the makers ran out of time to properly finish them and the photography and editing in general are an eyesore. The music is generic and forgettable, sometimes derivative also of the score for After Earth(the least bad thing about that film), while the sound effects and quality are murky. The dialogue is often total gibberish, somebody really needs to check that what they're writing makes any kind of sense, and is cheesy and stilted as well. Seeing as this is The Asylum we're talking about, the lack of originality(not just After Earth, Predators and Avatar as well) is something you eventually have to accustom to- no matter how frustrating it is- but the story still fails to be exciting, emotionally investing or remotely interesting for that matter. Instead it is as plodding as the story for After Earth, has the same nonsense and questionable science you expect for the Asylum and any dramatic scenes are mawkish and forced. The characters are not memorable or likable in the slightest, a few are even annoying, the fact that levels of characterisation itself are next to non-existent is a large part of the problem. The direction is flat and characterless, and the acting is so bad from everybody involved it's not worth commenting on, ranging from bored-sounding to irritating. In conclusion, horrible from start to finish. 1/10 Bethany Cox
chrisduwe Can only review the first 12 minutes as it was so poor I switched it off. The movie starts out like you've just switched on the TV and a cheap SCIFI TV episode is half way through, after 2 minutes you wish it was 90% through after a few more minutes you remember that you have the power to end your own misery. I chose to do the washing up instead, I'd advise watching paint dry or cleaning your WC would slao be more entertaining.Why bother with character development, plot or even scripted dialog when you can make a remake of an episode of star trek the next generation and sell it as a movie.
octahexx The movie starts out with earth under attack and the population who apparently only is 20 people is evaccing off the planet in space ships.The main character is a soldier that ends up on one of the ships during the assumed chaos.He wakes up from hibernation and find the crew is hunted by stealthy aliens.The acting is pretty bad. It has the all the flaws a b movie has when its bad, shaky handcam wooden dialogs plot holes and non likable characters.Like all bad b movies it feels the need to keep a high pace without it adding content.Airsoft guns and some cgi and you have it nailed down. There is no reason to care about anyone since its not believable or developed.The background is not explained or anything else either. I think the reason for the high pace is to try and avoid showing the flaws in the acting but it only makes it worse.So you starts the story nowhere and it goes nowhere and in the meantime its not any point to get interested.Avoid it if you can.