blee0744 I saw this movie for free, and I still overpaid. Alec Baldwin is, once again, a ham sandwich on two legs. Add the insufferable Danny Glover and you would think things couldn't get worse. But wait....poor photography, choppy editing, poor acting and corny dialog all contribute to making this a giant stink-burger.

TdSmth5 In the future, 8 billion people have been wiped-out by "the network." The 2 billion people left are all slaves to the 9 corporations that run the world. Their chance at freedom is to take part in the "Redemption Games." Alternatively, if they lose, they die. And so do all the slaves that have placed bets in this or that character. They get to see the games in first person perspective with some virtual virtual reality glasses as the contestants have been injected with nano-retinal cameras.So we meet the current sorry set of contestants. They are in some abandoned facility. But their memory has been wiped clean so they don't even know they are in a contest. How's that for an exciting life-or-death contest? These people don't know what year it is, who they are, where they are, why they are there, or what's going on. On top of that they don't enter the game at the same time, some of them have been there longer than others. So we meet them as they meet each other. Some are violent, some are peaceful. Some are reasonable, some aren't. The facility itself is supposed to be a maze of sorts, but if things weren't difficult enough, it changes as well, walls move closing the people off, or separating them, or killing them.In charge of the game is Alec Baldwin. He answers to Danny Glover who is the chancellor. He has a slave for whom he's developing feelings. When things get out of hand in the maze, Baldwin dispatches some tough girl to take care of things. Occasionally, the contestants are attacked by some guards.The contestants discover they have tattoos on their necks, which match a stone maze found on some walls, which allows the specific person to obtain some power. In one case one guy puts his arm in the stone maze and gets a weapon attached, that he rarely uses even when attacked by guards.While the contestant run around with little chance of anything we eventually learn something about some of them, as Baldwin grants them some memory. One of them was a guard, another was a programmer who took part in creating all this, another one even was a former contestant.Apparently things do look up for the contestants and that gets Baldwin in trouble who has to gather all his resources to challenge to contestants. And we learn of the outcome of the games.All this sounds OK enough, but it only means that a lot of effort went in this movie, mostly by the writers. It's not particularly original, but the back story is good enough. Unfortunately, there's no way around it that Andron is a huge failure. The cast is awful, you couldn't care less about any of these people. Baldwin is the only one who plays along and acts. The direction is completely clueless. This is supposed to be action sci-fi, but the action is filmed so poorly, they would have been better off not showing any action altogether. Not to mention that the director doesn't manage to get anything resembling a decent performance out of anyone but Baldwin. I don't think Andron is even passable enough for the international market. A good movie was possible with this script I think, but this crew ruins it completely.

Dani A good film. Especially if you're looking for a distopian Sci fi to fill you're time. Minus the performance of Danny Glover.The special effects made it look as though he was cut & pasted onto the screen. The overall acting is good and draws you in. It's worth a watch. Especially to see some familiar actors in the movie. I didn't watch it because of Alec Baldwin.The movies pace picks up towards the middle. At the end it leaves you guessing and wanting more. There's a scene in the credits so keep watching till the very end.

kittenpurse A pitiable attempt at dystopian sci-fi, pinching ideas from already derivative titles such as Hunger Games, and mashing them together in a low-budget farrago which degrades some reasonable actors.The major problem is that the plot makes no sense whatsoever, and that the writers and directors seem to have no more idea of what's going on than the actors or viewers; but the dreadful acting, lame action and awful dialogue are the clincher.One feels sorry for everyone on screen, particularly Alec Baldwin, but he must have known what he was doing when the accepted the script. As for Danny Glover, he doesn't even seem to know he's on film, and poor, poor Michelle Ryan, someone please get the girl a decent agent.I've seen student films better than this; surely it can only have been made a tax dodge.