edwithmj I'm sick of reading how bad this film is I really enjoy it every time I watch it. I first saw this film by accident on late night Channel 4 and to my horror I forgot what it was called. Years later in a used video shop I saw one that caught my eye. The spine had a strange looking robot and I picked it up read the synopsis and to my sheer delight it was the film! The film is about a scientist who sends robots back in time to explore the past. One time the experiment goes wrong and the robot encounters some humans which the robot tries to exterminate so as not to pollute the time line. Nicholas Sinclair goes back in time to stop the death and inadvertently causes a virus to mutate into a disease and gives it to everyone. He goes back to his own time and finds everything different. In this reality, robots are being sent to clean the time line thus kill everyone and we follow Sinclair's attempts to stop this from ever happening. I loved the narration during the film. it creates a depressing apocalyptic atmosphere throughout the film and I only saw a couple of bits with bad acting. These were done by the black man who was playing a stereotype. Others found the stereotype offensive, I found it refreshing to see the black man as you'd expect and not some sort of hero. The group of soldiers are good together and it was a nice touch not to have them like each other but still under the command of Shepherd. I always think he would make a great Duke Nukem. The robots did look a little cheap and nasty but are still scary and quite believable. The whole apocalyptic feel is done particularly well with the cities and landscape adding to the pretence that the world is in ruins. The final twenty minutes are gripping. I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen. I loved the bits where the people vanished from reality especially Taylor. The last scene with Shepherd and Sinclair was epic and made excellent cinema and the sound made the film eerie and atmospheric at the end when Sinclair sees himself save the world by stopping the units being sent in the first place. The whole film is thoroughly enjoyable with the fight scenes, dialogue and sets seem too good for a made-to-TV movie.

Misanthropic_Disease In opposite to my usual reviews, I won't spend too much time on this one... 'cause, whoever you are(age, sex, etc.) it sucks. Period.BUT - it doesn't mean that we can't enjoy some of its elements!I accidentally fell on used VHS versions of this movie a few times. The cover wasn't subtle, you knew it was B-grade from the very beginning, so it never reached my very heart... Then, one day, I bought a small lot of used VHS movies at 1$CND each, and I included this one: I was curious, that's all.Now that you know how I came to know this piece of poo, here's my opinion: The story is more obvious on the back of the VHS box, than in the movie. But once you get it, it leaves you cold and indifferent. Some Terminator influences can't hide behind this medium-budget production: Metallic humanoids robots with red eye who start to hunt down humans in a post-apocalyptic future, preceded and succeeded by time travels, sick and poor humans living underground, etc.Add a love story to that, a perfect collection of stereotyped characters, a good "made in USA" feeling, fantastic CGI special effects right out of the 90's, armors made from roller-blade protectors, LOTS of identical explosions (which are clearly exploding behind of before the target), a very pathetic, inconsequently and problematic use of "the butterfly effect" theory, all of this obviously taking place in the same repetitive vicinities and played by average actors. You get the idea? Great.As I said earlier, it is not original. But I'm pretty sure that if you take the same budget and the same idea, and give it to any b-grade producer, you couldn't really do better.Finally, if, as I did, you don't take it seriously, you may get entertained a little bit by it's very cliché sequences, but it won't change the fact that this movie still sucks.

junk-monkey I flopped down on the sofa to watch something at the end of a long week looking after my kids. I was exhausted. I wanted to switch my brain off for a bit and just stare into middle distance. Anything would have done. I was in that sort of place where I could have happily watched shopping channels (well nearly). I grabbed the the movie on top of the pile by the VCR and shoved it in. Unfortunately it was APEX...I have been reading and watching crappy SF for 35 or so years now and I have read and seen many Time Paradox stories; none of them comes close to being as ill though out, ill written, and downright incoherent as this pile of drek. Even with the central character's voice-overs trying to slap patches over the gaps in the narrative it still makes no sense whatsoever.What makes this movie a SLIGHT (very slight) cut above the rest is the arty pretentiousness that creeps out from time to time from behind the endless explosions, especially in the camera work. There is a curious use of colour in some shots where the whole set is lit in pure red, or green, or cyan with lots of deep shadows. It looks very peculiar. Almost like black and white film that has been tinted in the lab. Having said that, it's still a bad bad bad bad bad bad movie (I'm tempted to see how many time IMDb will allow me to type the word BAD before they bounce this review). A Stinker - but not, unfortunately one of those, so bad it's funny movies. It's a bad in a "Who do I have to screw to get OFF this movie?" sort of way.

teuthis I really like the premise of the film; time travel; time continuum violation; a scientist trapped in a violent world. His wife in his own world, is now,in his new world, a tough soldier, stricken with a fatal virus; and she doesn't even like him. He is trying desperately to repair the damage to time, and return the world from that of a violent war zone, beset by robots trying to exterminate all human life, to his own advanced and sophisticated culture. The idea, and the low budget presentation, are intriguing. I do not believe that every science fiction film can or will have a huge budget and expensive special effects. I enjoyed the actors, the acting and the adventure. I was able to immerse myself in the characters and flow right through the film with them. A.P.E.X has a strong plot, excellent continuity, good science, adventure, suspense and lots of excitement. The director did an excellent job of creating a world on the verge of extinction, hanging onto its humanity by slender threads. The only elements I did not care for at all, were the extremely foul language that pervaded the entire film; and the degrading stereotyping of the black soldier. He was a good actor, and had a lot more to offer than that of a modern day ghetto brute. His character could have been rough and crude without being completely obscene. All they had to do was leave out all the bad language. The actor did a fine job with his role anyway. I enjoyed his rendition of his character. I often think that some day, in a more enlightened cultural time frame, we are going to be completely ashamed of the foul language that currently pervades and debases even our finest films. There will possibly be an effort to clean up the old films, and a debate will rage as to whether this is akin to colorization, and destroys the artistic intent of the films. Let us hope. At any rate, A.P.E.X. is an enjoyable science fiction experience, even with the obscenities intact. I recommend it for mature science fiction fans.