michael harrison Stewart st John why don't you give it up - just last week i reviewed dark metropolis and now this piece of crap pops up made a year earlier you can't blame the actors except i wonder why bailey chase and eric scott woods would turn around and make another crappy movie with an even crappier director both actors have been seen in numerous television shows so they really aren't bad actors and Mr St John very well might have hurt their careers with this souless boring piece of garbage the script should be used to wrap fish it couldn't stink any more than this movie i am lost for words trying to find anything good to say about it but i can't, all i can feel is anger for having my time wasted trying to be the ever optimist that i try to be but there is nothing optimistic about this film even though it is only 38 minutes long don't waste your time Mr St John why don't you go back to making power rangers

adi-cat Gorguruga (the nick of the first reviewer) where on Earth were you a few days ago!?? Should I have seen your review a couple of days earlier, when I got my hands on this film, I would have run soooo fast in the opposite direction.If you read this, save yourself the pain of watching this hunk of trash; you can do way better with your time.I won't even begin to reiterate all the things that are wrong with this movie, they are so many that it would actually be easier to try and find one or two good things in it.Anyway, above all, the ending blew me out of the water. In the worst way possible, that is. Basically, there is no ending. When you begin hoping that something interesting will actually start to happen and save the movie from oblivion, in fact it smartly decides to end.The whole film builds up slowly towards a climax that never happens, because it ends prematurely, and you're left with a perplexed look on your face, wondering what the hell was in your head when you decided to watch this.It looks like all the guys involved in production decided among themselves: "Let's pull a prank on the viewers and only make half of a movie. Then we'll have a good laugh looking at their faces as they watch the credits in awe."Well, news flash gentlemen: The joke is on you. ;)

gorguruga This movie had a premise with a lot of promise but unfortunately it just doesn't deliver and it soon devolves into a dull, boring and uninspired production.Also entitled "Dark Metropolis", the movie screams of very low production value, some awful scenes which should have been removed or re-filmed and perhaps some misguided casting.Eric Scott Woods main character seemed completely miscast at first, he just didn't fit the part of a leader. Perhaps if they had more takes to choose from they could have made some of those scenes work better but as it is he comes across initially as a very bad actor and throws the movie off it's rails. Later on though there are some scenes where he does a much better job, showing he had potential all along but, whether it's due to a low budget and time restrictions preventing them from re-shooting some scenes, his performance early on in the movie leaves a lot to be desired.There's also some cheap voice sound effects which serve to emphasize that a **SLIGHT SPOILER** Channeler is "possessed" or "inhabited" by an non-physical alien "spirit".**END SPOILER** It's the typical pitch drop effect which has been so overused in movies that it's outright redundant now and only serves to lower the tone even further.Some of the scripting is awful too while other parts are acceptable. It's inconsistent and just doesn't work for the most part.The one fight scene was unrealistic and appeared painfully staged. It was like a fight scene from an old 1950s run-of-the-mill cowboy movie, totally inauthentic and immediately laughable.In terms of CGI effects, aliens or anything like that - they are virtually non-existent. There's only ONE static shot of the underground city which is actually regurgitated more than once in the movie and there's one (very poor) weapon firing effect. That's it! No more effects.All in all, this turned out to be worse than most sci-fi TV movies. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, even die-hard science fiction fans. It felt more like a school play with adult actors who nearly all did a pretty poor job. A total waste of time and money. And what makes it worse is that they had the nerve to imply there was a sequel in the pipeline! An unforgivably bad movie. The only reason I gave it a 2 (and not a 1) is because all the actors showed potential, they just didn't fulfill that potential in this movie.