Atlantic Rim

Plot synopsis:
Following the mysterious disappearance of an oil rig and a reconnaissance mini-submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, scientist Dr. Margaret Adams initiates the Armada Program, which consists of giant robots designed for deep sea rescue. The three robots—piloted by Red, Tracy and Jim—dive nearly 800 fathoms to the sea bed, where they not only discover the mangled remains of the oil rig, but encounter the monster that brought it down. Red pursues the monster against orders from Admiral Hadley, prompting the Admiral to order every naval fleet on the East Coast to converge to the oil rig's site. Red emerges on a beach to warn the bystanders to leave the premises for their safety when he is suddenly attacked from behind by the monster as their fight takes its toll on the city. An F-18 Hornet piloted by Spitfire assists Red in taking the monster down. Red, however, is arrested for disobeying a direct order. He is locked in solitary confinement until he is briefly released by Adm. Hadley and later given a medal of honor for his heroic actions before serving the rest of his confinement.
Later, Adm. Hadley is informed by Sheldon Geise of a top-secret sonar program that discovered the monsters that are hundreds of millions of years old and lay their eggs on a mixture of crude oil and saltwater. Two eggs have been discovered; one of which hatched into the monster that Red and Spitfire killed. Adm. Hadley orders a search for the other egg, but he is too late, as it has already hatched, with the monster destroying a whole naval fleet before wreaking havoc on the city. As the monster attacks the naval base, Tracy and Jim scramble to spring Red out of solitary before they are picked up by Lt. Wexler. Meanwhile, Geise informs Adm. Hadley that the President has authorized a nuclear strike on the monster, but Adm. Hadley refuses that decision and orders everyone to evacuate the base. The monster retreats after a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit drops a payload on it. Adm. Hadley is later informed that another egg has hatched off the Atlantic Coast.
Dr. Adams gives the trio special "halo" headbands that neurally link them to their robots, increasing their reflexes by using their direct body movements instead of joysticks. The system's downside is the pilot feeling pain for every damage the robot takes. After a crash course on the new system, the trio fly their robots to New York City to battle the monster. Following numerous refusals by Adm. Hadley to launch a nuclear strike, Geise orders the USS Virginia to launch a warhead. Red intercepts the missile and jams its frequency, saving the city from a nuclear holocaust. In retaliation, Geise threatens Dr. Adams to shut down the robots, but is quickly subdued by Lt. Wexler, despite shooting the Admiral in the arm. During the battle, Tracy loses consciousness when her neural level goes critical. Jim takes Tracy to safety while Red grabs the warhead and the monster before flying them to the atmosphere. He then kicks the monster to deep space, detonating the warhead in the process and sending him crashing back on Earth. The trio and Adm. Hadley celebrate by heading to the local bar for some tequila shots.

Tags: violence

Review:
Though the movie was just suffering from being a cheap knock off of "Pacific Rim".The storyline in this movie requires no brain activity, just switch into auto-pilot and watch the movie as the three good guys in their mecha armor suits beat up some colossus aquatic monster that came from God knows where.As for the dialogue in the movie, well it was bad, really bad.
And some of the things they say was just downright embarrassing to witness.And the acting in the movie was equally bad.
And David Chokachi (playing Red) looked like he was trying to do a reenactment of "American Ninja: The Musical" - if there was such a thing.This is not one of the better movies to make it out of The Asylum's drawing board, not even by a long shot.
If you are going to copy something and cash in on something, at least do it properly.For a Sci-Fi movie, then "Atlantic Rim" was a really plain and below mediocre experience.
Although I have seen a lot, and I do mean a lot, of questionable and low-budget movies, then "Atlantic Rim" is not the worst amongst those movie, but it is up there on the high ends of the scale..
I can't say the movie was completely predictable because NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE.I felt like a 5 year old boy was leaping on his bed swinging around his Jedi light-saber telling me, "And then the robots had weapons!
The 'Love Triangle' which lasts about 21 seconds.A homeless guy getting jumped in an alleyway by the main characters for no apparent reason.This movie is absolutely dreadful...
Well they don't deserve a high grade, I know of 7 year old that make better flicks than this whole movie.Acting is non-existent.
If military would be like these people we would all be Germans right now.So many things in this movie make no sense that I cannot even start listing them, it would take too many pages.This is a big waste of time..
There are worse movies from The Asylum than Atlantic Rim, but is that saying much?
Atlantic Rim is bottom-of-the-barrel quality, it not only is so badly done in every way but there isn't any novelty value to make it fun, whereas some other terrible Asylum movies did have specks of that.
There are worse special effects from The Asylum and they are the least bad asset of Atlantic Rim, the robots are very Power Rangers-like but they do look decent though the sea creature is slapdash and doesn't seem that much of a threat.
In other technical areas Atlantic Rim fares worse, the editing and camera work are rushed and frenzied, making some scenes containing action not very cohesive and the sound effects and mixing are muddied.
Anybody who expects thrills, fun and a little suspense are better off finding something else, none of those things are in Atlantic Rim. None of the characters are likable, they have cardboard personalities- once you get over the fact that once again The Asylum are using literally every cliché in the book- and are severely undeveloped, to make things worse the soldiers are annoying and the villain is like one from a bad Saturday morning cartoon.
Atlantic Rim joins the long list of low-budget movies where a capable actor gives a lousy performance, in this case Graeme Greene, and there are the obligatory beautiful women whose acting talents don't match their looks.
I have not been left so fulfilled and in such a philosophical stupor by a film for a very long time.Once you get past the horrendously mid-level acting, the script is so well written I actually haemorrhaged blood into my bladder.
I just couldn't believe that there was a market for this, so I came up with a few theories: * internet spoof: a bunch of movie buffs enjoy recreating scene-by-scene a blockbuster with intentionally minimalist SFX for release on YouTube * film school project: a bunch of students set out to recreate a multi-million blockbuster as quickly and inexpensively as possible, in order to learn the ropes What I finally settled on, was that I was watching an animated storyboard, i.
I had to admire the actors for acting their hearts out, almost like in a real movie, only much more hammy.
What was that crap?, AAAAARRRGGH it was awful, i could only bare watching it for 5m, cheap ass knock off, I could make a better movie without even spending £1.
I was amazed at how GOOD the actors were at "ACTING" - OK no lets be honest, they suck, should give up on their carrier and start working at the Burger Kng or something, this movie was ATROCIOUS, not even worth downloading, waste of bandwidth and a waste of space on your Hard Drive, after watching this I had to turn off the TV and computer and start reading something to get it off my head, Damn.Seriously watch it for yourself and judge this crap, then tell me if it was worth it..
Amazing CGI, fighting scenes and generally a brilliant film.Don't get sucked in and confused and watch this one by mistake, that's my advice..
i am die hard fan of sci-fi and "transformer" type movies.so i decided to see that also.but it was huge disappointment if you are going to compare it to some good movie.actors tried but acting was failed to involve audience in film.plot could be more better.graphics were also very bad.hero and villein were seen making joke of discipline of army and their chief (didn't bother about his orders)story line was weak.whole army was failed to kill monster and robots were sent to fight with fist and rods.in short nothing in film succeeded to have impact of any kind on me.really if you are serious films fan.you should not see that.specially "transformers" fans.if you don't have any thing to kill time count stars i promise it will be worth of your time rather then this..
Just watched this dreadful movie which I found to be utter rubbish.Oh yes indeed it is a gutter budget movie full of cheap fx & major poor acting.From the start the storyline was going nowhere & the acting was so wooden.
I've never seen Pacific Rim, which this film is clearly a cheap and nasty imitation of, so I must see that, to watch how such an interesting idea can be made into a proper film .
I paid 99p to hire this from Blinkbox, perhaps I should ask for refund.It would take too long to list all the flaws in this monstrosity - terrible acting, totally disjointed story, pathetic script, cheap effects to name a few.To would-be film-makers, screenwriters and directors, this film should be mandatory watching showing exactly how NOT to make a good movie..
But also a bit of fun just because of the terrible acting .why was graham green in this film what was he thinking ,a well known decent actor even he looked crap in this .ok so it wasn't terrible dependent on what you were expecting and i got exactly that.the slow wet suit walk in the beginning is hilarious.then there's red the main man ,what a hero , what a bell end !
That they have now changed the title could be only for one of two reasons: 1) Legal troubles with the Pacific Rim people or 2) Atlantic Rim got such a bad reputation they're trying to re-release it under a different name.This is one of the few movies that I would give 3 stars on special effects alone (not great, but interesting)...
it all adds up to a "rainy Saturday afternoon when the internet is out" movie.But then, anyone who watches a giant robots vs sea monsters movie made by Asylum and expects anything but goofy really is not acquainted with this company.
I gave this one a chance thinking "Hey, even Asylum can't totally ruin a giant robots vs sea monsters movie." And I was right.
It's a film packed to the brim with nonsense, featuring some pretty bad CGI monsters and robots and robotic dialogue to match.I like del Toro's PACIFIC RIM; it's a rip-roaring homage to the kaiju flicks of old.
The performances are uniformly poor, ranging from the non-starters (like Treach, who was also in the horrendous THE ART OF WAR III) to the weary veterans (Graham Greene, a long way from DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE).The CGI shots are as cheap and amateurish as you'd expect, but at least when the fights start Atlantic RIM does keep you watching - if only a little.
Never a good sign when the opening credits start with "The Asylum Presents..." Three crack soldiers are deployed to fight giant sea monsters from attacking the USA using massive manned Transformer type robots.
Terrible, wooden acting on display here, cheap CGI effects & incredibly dumb plot, plus there's not actually a great deal of monster action, so it's pretty boring too.
The plot is terrible.The acting is terrible.The scene cuts are terrible.The special FX are mediocre, at best.It's actually really funny to watch this movie in it's glorious entirety...
Unlike most people who are writing these reviews, I have an awareness of how bad movies can get.
You haven't seen the "worst movie of all time" (a shallow phrase I despise), if you haven't watched many dozens of extremely low budget productions.
That said, although "Atlantic Rim" is far from being one of the worst movies of all time, I still cannot undo a feeling of embarrassment for my responsibility of ever so slightly increasing its rating, which is 1.7, at the moment.
According to the movie that behavior is absolutely fine, commanders will laud you for it and express their pride, as long as you're the best at your job.The action, dialog and special effects are never interesting or engaging, but rather cringe inducing and confusing.
The people involved were fully incapable of predicting what the movie would look or feel like when finished.
(even in Sharknado the actors are much better).The script itself have no-sens and we can notice that during first 5min of the movie.Seriously after 10min my eyes was almost bleeding just seeing this very stinky movie.Pacific rim was way much better and interesting (at a certain point) then this one.Truth is The Asylum is not capable to release something good and every time they release a film, you can be sure that it will be a mess or an awful version of a movie which was already made 100 times in 100 different way but this time you just don't have to waste your time because you know it will stink.To do a resume : Just don't lose your time to watch it or other movies released by "The Asylum" because it's just a waste of time !.
I am one of those types of people who like to watch bad D movies for the horrible funniness of it all but this one had nothing.
Well I guess that Asylum is by now notorious for taking a coming blockbuster and quickly making a cheap version with similar name, if it is to fool the audience and hoping to make some money in people watching these by mistake, or if it deliberately making these b-movie adaption and hoping them to become cult or just making a fan base for them, I don't know, maybe it is a bit of both.I had to see it, just to see what they had done, I liked Pacific Rim and didn't think this would do anything better, I was right...
...this is one of the worst ones I have seen, the big monsters, the Kaiju is particularly bad and the inside of the robots looks like something from the eighties or nineties.There are some fun elements not in a comedy kind of way but in a sad and bad kind of way, mostly it is bad effects, bad acting, very cliché and just not working at all..
I watched the full film to see how bad it would get, but words cannot describe how awful this film is in places.Plot starts off similar to Pacific Rim, but just becomes absurd within less than 10 minutes.
The acting was awful and very wooden at times and the CGI was very budget (high school project level).
I can only imagine them watching the films they parody wishing they could be real movie stars like them.
For the five mins of this film that I watched, it looked how I imagine a home movie looks when someone films their kids playing with Rock Em Sock Em Robots.
CGI budget must have been entirely used up in one or two scenes as most of the film is made up of people running around a military base and drinking in a bar.So glad I didn't pay to watch this and caught it on a dud channel in the middle of the night..
"Atlantic Rim" is the type of movie that's genuinely terrible...
Of course, it's a bargain-basement rip-off of "Pacific Rim," but its special effects are worse than an old episode of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." It's funny for a few scenes before it becomes repetitive, and the human drama surrounding the movie's plot is barely worth paying attention to.
I work at a branch library and one day as I was checking Atlantic Rim out to one of our older patrons, she said to me, "Whenever I feel down or depressed, I check out this movie and watch it and it always makes me feel better." At the time, I thought that was very strange.
I have watched it many many times since then and it gets better with every showing.Amazing action, amazing special effects - just men in robots fighting monsters.Atlantic Rim and Sharknado are the best movies I have ever seen.
It takes a movie like Atlantic Rim to touch the soul..
I don't usually write reviews, in fact, this is my second film review ever - but I had to warn people against watching this movie.
The acting is appalling, the screen writing is terrible in every way and the cinematography is probably the worst i have ever seen.I find it hard to believe that someone actually saw the script and got to put up the money to shoot this story.
In fact, seeing Grahm Green's name plastered to it made me feel sorry for an actor who once played in movies such as Dances with wolves and Die hard.DO NOT WATCH (unless you are into laughing at horrible films).
The CGI wasn't half bad and the acting wasn't nearly as terrible as a lot of their other movies.I love Graham Greene and he is a legend but he looked absolutely miserable.
It definitely seemed more like a kids movie, not that it's a bad thing but I think they could have done somewhat better..
In many instances, the scenes look like an 80's video game, they are that bad.The robot cockpit sets are basically a small room, decorated with flexible air-conditioning tubes and disco rope lights.
Wooden acting from everyone, terrible effects, really really bad story.
Badly produced and directed.I thought it was a comedy at one point with disjointed story lines.Really, really, really, really bad movie and I watch the Sci-Fi channel!Scene 1 No background of the robots creation, they just suddenly appear with 3 all American heroes at the helm like Power RangersScene 2 Oil rig taken down and they go find that a big dinosaur done it.
Aaah!!!Special Effects - They were really special as in you can see that fire wasn't real and that was awful.Direction - God knows what he had in mind before making this and while getting edited.After watching this movie I had to immediately watch Hangovers to rip off its image..
Unfortunately the script barely holds together.Watch Pacific Rim (the movie it was based on)...
Atlantic Rim is what is known as a mockbuster: where they try to imitate a good movie.:-).
The robots are so pathetic and thin they look as if carved from cheap aluminum; not heavy metal like Pacific rim.
One thing I will mention is the fact I almost always enjoy Graham Greene as an actor and I would have to believe he wanted to pummel the writer and director throughout this farce.I liked Pacific Rim even if it was a bit cheesy because I am an anime fan and that is specifically what they were attempting to achieve.
It was as if the directors told the actors: "we're making a movie with giant robots and sea monsters.
Terrible acting, cheesy effects, copy cat crap of a movie.
It's funny to watch the bad acting.
so if you have nothing else to do this would make a great movie to watch...
On the positive side, the movie CGI (or at least the monsters and robots) looked...OK.
Again, It's kind of embarrassing to watch.I've seen movies with worse production values, with worse acting, even with worse plots.
But the writers appear to have no idea how human beings (let alone soldiers) act, or talk, and the screenplay is so obviously a wanna-be rip-off of superior earlier movies that it's (again) kind of embarrassing to watch..
This is by far the worst movie we have seen in a long long time!
The acting is so bad and really hard to watch.
OK, I saw all of the bad reviews and said, "Hey, this must be a terrible movie without much of anything that I would like because so many other people hated it!".
So, I decided to watch it and found out that it was well acted and had a great plot with really, really, dootedly CGI effects.
The cast looks like a group of real people rather than modeling school rejects, and the effects were MUCH better than I had any reason to expect.
In the case of this movie,the special effects suck, the nonexistent dialogue is horrible, and acting seems constipated.