Review – Automaton

I don’t know. I thought Robovision and Monstervision were both good, but somehow combining them into Robo-Monstervision just didn’t work. Seriously though, this is an awful, pseudo-artistic mess about a dystopian future in which small pockets of armageddon-surviving humanity battle on using robot soldiers. Really slow moving robot soldiers. Between robo-battles, the protagonist plays videos of her father (Angus “The Tall Man” Scrimm) droning on and on about the drama’s apocalyptic back story. Two technical points: first, the battle sequences look about the same when played at double speed (and of course take only half the time). Second, the DVD errored out at around an hour and nine minutes in. Because we were unable to restart it, I’m going to give the picture a benefit-of-the-doubt point based on the questionable theory that something radically better might have happened in the last 15 minutes. See if desperate