Inexperienced film makers + unlimited budget = this mess

Rating: 2/10 (9 November 2003)

In a future where they have robot battle Armour, how has the concept of the recoilless rifle totally escaped them? The machine guns mounted on the battle armour would be totally useless as it would be impossible to aim any weapon with that much recoil. Plus it looked really dumb.
This movie is a total mess. There is no drama, no subtlety, nothing inventive or original. (who hasn't seen the mass of robot armies fighting each other in every video game trailer and rock video over the past few years?) The movie only gets interesting whenever Smith walks on, but he is so much more interesting than anything else going on that its distracting more than entertaining.
And is it me or was it impossible to follow what was going on? There was so much going on in the battle scenes and there was so much fast camera movement that it was completely impossible to focus on anything, much less tell what was happening. I occasionally had a vague notion that a 'squid' had been shot and was exploding, but I was not able to clearly seen any of the action, at all. Compare this to a great movie like Empire Strikes Back where there is a lot going on in the asteroid chase scene, but at no point do you question whether that was in fact a Tie Fighter hitting an asteroid, or if the Millennium Falcon was flying around in an asteroid field. Its all completely clear, and not so mind numbingly fast that you cannot begin to digest what you have seen.
Anyway, this is just awful, I cannot think of any reason I would ever watch this movie again.