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Now, I like stupid movies with bad acting, because it avails me of the opportunity to crack a lot of jokes and keep myself amused. However, this movie is so bad on every level at all times that I became laugh-exhausted about 30 minutes in.

I don't understand where they got these "actors" from. They should have been forced out of the industry at gunpoint immediately upon their arrival in Los Angeles.

I don't understand aliens who cannot be killed by high-velocity projectiles, but can be killed by bonking them with bits of fire safety equipment.

I don't understand how our hero is pointlessly dragged before the alien queen for a Big Reveal, but then he never reveals any of this vital information to anyone else except in the vaguest terms. And that's cool with everyone else who, you know, has their planet's existence on the line. No follow-up questions from the team. At all.

I don't understand how you plan to successfully invade another PLANET with a team of 5 people. One of whom is only armed with a fire axe. By choice.

I don't understand ... aw heck, I don't understand any aspect of this movie, and I'm not going to wear my fingers down to nubs typing about it. This movie isn't "Ha-Ha" bad - it's "Give me back my 120 minutes of life or I'll hose your offices down with lead" bad. Oops, gotta go - I think I hear police sirens ...

This was so big of a Epic Fail it turned out to be one of the best laughs I have had for ages. It starts off with pretty much Armageddon and Deep Impact plot then moves into a Starship Troopers and Battle: Los Angeles and the Shuttles are like a Hybrid of a Ship from Thunderbirds and the Last Starfighter and when it takes off the first time the flames from the rocket seem to go through the ground. Upon Arriving in Space they for some reason have perfect gravity and also they same when they land on the Meteor totally the same gravity as earth also when they pass through the porthole to the alien Planet wow what are the chances of that. All the Death scenes are so hilarious the effects seem almost cartoonist like and so random most the main cast was Dead before the first half. All I wanted Robert Picardo to say was "Please state the nature of the Medical emergency." The movie was only missing the Benny Hill Music at the End that would of made it perfect. So to some it up its so funny because it so bad even Dean Cain would not play a role in it worth watching for that alone.

From the opening scene this movie it blows chunks. This movie is so bad you can watch the first 10 minutes, skip to the last 10 minutes and the rest is cannon fodder. Now that concludes my review of "The Age of Tomorrow". Should you care to stick around I am now going to give some major points as to why this movie is so lousy. The rest would be considered as "spoilers", if that were actually possible.

Opening scene, fireman and concerned father is driving on the LA freeway talking on his cell phone. California law bans all drivers from using hand-held cell phones while driving. Of course we then hear him tell his wife that he left the teenage daughter home with the dog and she will be just fine. After that he places another call to his juvenile daughter (still driving) and tells her not to come home drunk again. What an upstanding character for this movie!

Scene two has some very low budget military and we get to see the two name actors "Kelly Hu" and "Robert Picardo". Sadly they both look like they are in pain for taking Asylum's blood money, but they need to eat too. Apparently in this scene, physicists who are both employed by the Pentagon and are expected to arrive, don't have clearance to see Generals and are detained by security.

Dr. Gordon explains the asteroid one fourth the size of Earth's moon is going to collide with the Earth in just 48 hours. This is very typical of most movies to make killer asteroids much bigger than you need. Since the moon is roughly a few thousand miles wide that would mean the asteroid is about 500 miles wide and going to kill us regardless. We have no bomb big enough to blow up a rock that size.

The next scene is fireman Chris Meher and his buds at a fire. Either the firemen in the scene have jedi powers or someone tossed axes at them and they actually caught them. Firemen are not safety minded people in this movie. They proceed to rescue a woman from a burning building. Meher's partner breaks his leg and is carried back to safety while Meher returns to show off more awesome jedi powers by leaping out an exploding window on the sixth floor and landing with the victim on a parked car not even denting the trunk.

There are serious unrealistic acting flaws such as unprofessional character in both military and firemen. Such as whooping it up when you find out you are being paid $3 million to save your world from an asteroid collision. Whining about weapons to go on the mission. "Great we got tickets to the end of the world and we don't have any damn guns." The shuttle interior and spacesuits look like they were decorated by Doctor Victor Freeze. There is far too much gravity on the small asteroid there was no attempt to make the actors appear weightless. Later when the firemen and Major Blake are pinned down, Chris Meher states his plan to go rescue his teenage daughter. Two of his fellow firemen state his daughter is not worth it and she is not that cute.

Science and the laws of plausibility are chucked into a dumpster when the asteroid rescue team discovers that the asteroid is nothing more than a prelude for alien invasion. They get teleported to the alien homeworld yet can make some type of call for help. Assuming the alien homeworld is as close as 4 lightyears away such a signal would take longer than 4 years to reach Earth. The age old joke of removing your helmet and saying, "Good there is air here." hasn't made me laugh since forever.

Finally about 52 minutes into this movie there is a pathetic scene on the alien homeworld. Captain James Wheeler is freeing an unknown and healthy female captive and she is distraught and begs him to kill her. Everyone knows that people in a crisis think clearly so... the Captain stabs her slowly in the gut. Yes, he kills her in the most painful way imaginable. What a hero. Yet moments later he is faced with a fellow soldier who is obviously been tortured and dying who is denied the same sympathy or indifference.

Watching this whole movie is like getting stabbed in the gut by Captain James Wheeler.

One good point about this movie: it made me learn about Asylum and its mock-buster movies (thanks to IMDb). So now I know I have an excuse to add that unnamable thing to my SF movie collection, if I can find a copy for about $1 (I do find some on the legal market).

I watched it to see how far they would go. To be honest, no one can be that bad by accident, whether acting, script, dialog, whatever. Not by accident: it has to be intentional and one has to work hard at it. So abysmal that it made me laugh on occasion.

I guess it is interest in this attempt at breaking barriers and setting new records of outrageousness that won the participation of actors we have seen in better context.

Spoiler (though spoiling this movie is hardly possible): Another good thing about this movie is that all the characters get killed: they all deserve it.

Given that the film was actually trying to be bad, I must consider it a real success. I must logically rate it at 9. I actually hesitated between 9 and 10, but I want to encourage them or other filmmakers to try even harder to see whether they can do even worse. I actually read from other reviews that Asylum can do worse. So my guess is that 9 is the right rating.

I watched the movie because Kelly Hu was top billed. She and Robert Picardo didn't have the most screen time but they actually had more then I expected. It starts quick and appears to be a remake of Armageddon as a giant rock is heading for the earth and a motley crew going to be sent to drill into the rock, plant charges and blow it up.

Picardo is the ranking military man and Kelly Hu is a scientist who goes with the crew to the asteroid. Pieces of the asteroid start hitting the earth which leads to the 2nd plot where a firefighter who has a wayward daughter is trying to help stop the many fires breaking out.

Things begin to twist as it's not an asteroid but a transport full of alien fighter drones and it switches to an Independence Day type movie complete with a rousing speech to the troops by General Picardo.

Some people are being killed and others appear to be disintegrated. The firefighter now is trying to make it to his daughter while the alien drones start blasting people. There were a couple of good shots where someone (somewhat) unexpectedly gets their head blown off.

It takes another twist as it turns out the people are actually being teleported to the alien homeworld and Kelly Hu and the team of rough necks make it there. They do a good low budget job of making the alien world look alien by odd colored plants. The budget is low and one of the things they saved some money on was to use some "alien" music from the 1950s-1960s but maybe it was a tongue in cheek homage.

There are plenty of moments when you yell out oh-come-on but but normally they are things to advance the plot without raising the budget.

There are more twists and I did enjoy the ending. Overall it was a fun time filler and it's certainly way more entertaining than the rating would suggest. One of the things that tells me is that the production company didn't pay anyone to post a bunch of positive reviews on sites like this. In fact some of the reviews seem to be trying to settle a score so maybe they were going to get a crew to do that and ran out of money so the professional reviewers turned on them. In any case don't be turned off by the low rating.

The acting isn't the greatest and there is quite a contrast when Kelly Hu or Picardo are expressing emotion with their faces and the others have either blank expressions or look like they are feeling constipated. But there aren't any characters or actors that are real turn offs.

If you are looking for some high budget effects and an all star cast this isn't for you. But if you can enjoy a low budget film with a decent story and good twists give it a try.

This gets a 2 from me only because people shouldn't search for Picardo and find he was in movie rated a lowly 1. As for the title of my summary - Why would they do this? - let's start with why would you send an Army team into space to destroy an asteroid or anything else? Air Force, NASA, yes. Army? Might as well send some oil rig workers. Anyway, they think it's a natural object, so why is this team armed? Just as well they are because they find aliens inside what is actually a mother ship. The hive queen telepathically joins with one of the characters to reveal its species' motivation. Why would join with (a) a lowly life form (b) a member of a species you're planning to exterminate or subjugate; and c) you're going to kill him anyway? Are your minions/hive drones/whatever so incapable of appreciating your grand plan that you have to get an ego boost from whatever that alien thing is? There's more, but I'd be asking to be flamed if I queried some of the character's reasons for doing what they do. If it's cable late at night an you can't find anything better, this might be worth putting on in the background while you do something else.

If you're familiar with The Asylum, you know their claim to fame is low budget Sci Fi and Horror. There is absolutely nothing plausible about this movie. They execute a space launch to a meteor within 48 hours. They send a rescue mission to an alien planet with 7 soldiers and a fireman. The Fireman kills more aliens with his ax than the entire army. If you're like me you watch Asylum movies for a laugh. Occasionally they come out with a gem. This is not one of those times. I would have to put this alongside Attack of the Killer Tomatoes in my collection of bad movies. I'd almost say it has bad movie cult potential, but that might be a stretch.

I really wanted to find something redeeming about this..."movie", but there was not one single thing. It was an utter loss of an hour and a half of my life. Good thing I was bored to begin with.

First off, the acting was..sub par would be a compliment. The only "good" actor in the film was Robert Picardo, and he is entertaining in most things I have seen him in. Everyone else is either stiff, unbelievable in their role, or just a walking cliché.

The special effects make Sharknado look almost realistic. The set pieces were so low budget, I've seen fan films for Star Wars and Star Trek with no budgets do better. There had to have been only ONE alien costume in the entire film because you only saw one physical alien at any given time. Any time there are "multiple aliens" in a shot, it is through the use of clever editing, or the use of post production manipulation (aka cut and paste). CGI in the film was also poor. I've seen better in late 90's Playstation One intro/cut scene videos.

The last real problem, every bit of this film is a cliché. All the way to the ending, which was meant to be a "end of the world" type ending with the clichéd "last stand" confrontation that cuts to the credit roll. It felt like the producers/director/writer took bits of Armageddon, Skyline, Star Wars, Edge of Tomorrow (in title only), Independence Day, and several popular sci-fi invasion films, and tried to piece them together. Much like taking several puzzles, taking the pieces and hammering them together to create a hodge podge image that was simply ugly to look at, and made nearly no sense.

This movie has a 2 out of 10 rating here on IMDb for a reason. It isn't even bad enough to be "good".

I will never get the running time I spent watching this back. It was so Bad i felt bad for the actors who were in this. The should have held out a tin cup so i could donate to their living expenses instead of playing these roles. I love sci-fi even bad sci-fi, but this OMG... Now on to the review. I felt like i was watching every alien, meteor, sci-fi flick in the last 30 years all rolled up into one-liners. meteor, Armageddon, deep impact, Independence day, oblivion, alien, Backdraft, etc

Spoilers There is nothing science in this fiction, the go into space and have gravity, the go thru a star gate to get to another planet and it looks like a weird yellow brick road, in bad cinema scope, no accounting for the mass of the planet, the aliens are impervious to bullets, ray-guns, but not punches to the face or axes. The beacon being sent home would take about 70,000 light years to reach them, but they got the message in about 5 seconds. everybody dies and you don't give a crap about anyone.

1 Saving grace is the astronauts suits liked like Jafar armor.

skip this dog!