My quick rating - 3,2/10. Well, not the WORST movie I have ever seen, but pretty awful. A group of really bad actors I mean, slaves, are put in some dungeon and must fight there way out.They call it a maze yet always seem to know where things are. Anyway, the group faces a madman (Alec Baldwin, who must've lost a bet and dragged Danny Glover into this mess) that is trying to eliminate their spirit for a game show? I think I have it right. Hard to tell but for some reason the "bad guys" who can shoot lightning from their hands and morph their bodies tend to resort to fist fighting for no apparent reason. Of course, a couple of the detainees are poor martial artists, but that goes without saying (or they are good martial artists who are choreographed so poorly that their sensai will be furious this was ever filmed). I really don't know if their is much redeeming about this movie and if I didn't use gut instinct on my rating, reflecting as I type this, I almost want to knock it down even lower. Don't bother since there are plenty of decent to good movies out there waiting for you.
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Pointless & a waste of my hour and half
defmuse18 June 2016
The Score: unoriginal, regurgitated, and outdated. A few of the pieces sounded like they were lifted off the Mortal Kombat soundtrack.
The Acting: horrendous... it's so bad that characters who are supposed to be dead, are clearly seen breathing on film.
The dialogue: worse. There are lines that are completely redundant... like they've been thrown in there due to lack of anything coherent by the writers.
The saddest part: Skin is terrible. I cringed every time she tried to "act." I don't know why, but she kept sounding like she was reading her dialogue to kindergarteners.
I want to give this movie a higher rating due to Baldwin & Glover being involved, but they don't add even a percentage of class or relief to this movie.
The Acting: horrendous... it's so bad that characters who are supposed to be dead, are clearly seen breathing on film.
The dialogue: worse. There are lines that are completely redundant... like they've been thrown in there due to lack of anything coherent by the writers.
The saddest part: Skin is terrible. I cringed every time she tried to "act." I don't know why, but she kept sounding like she was reading her dialogue to kindergarteners.
I want to give this movie a higher rating due to Baldwin & Glover being involved, but they don't add even a percentage of class or relief to this movie.
Abysmal
larrys321 August 2016
I'm sure I won't be the only person asking the question whether Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover really needed a paycheck that badly to be in this catastrophe of a movie? After selecting it from Redbox, I came home and saw the 2.8 rating on IMDb and knew I was in big trouble.
I could go on and on writing how on so many levels this film is abysmal. Let's just say I found the "plot" to be a convoluted mess, the emotionless acting left me uncaring about any of the characters, and I would have turned it off much earlier but I stuck it out, I imagine, to write this review.
All in all, just a very painful hour and a half.
I could go on and on writing how on so many levels this film is abysmal. Let's just say I found the "plot" to be a convoluted mess, the emotionless acting left me uncaring about any of the characters, and I would have turned it off much earlier but I stuck it out, I imagine, to write this review.
All in all, just a very painful hour and a half.
Love the concept, but might work better as a game cause it's not a good movie.
subxerogravity13 June 2016
Ten people awake in a maze that's really crappy looking, with no memory of who they are and only one of them is allowed to get out of the maze alive.
The game concept works. Each player has a symbol tattooed on their neck that matches a symbol on a wall to get a cool weapon. Most players got simple guns while other got some really cool stuff straight out of a video game (like one guy got a really cool Mega Man like weapon). Once in a while they battle androids robots that look like ninjas, as well as fighting each other until their numbers dwindled down.
As a film the story was just too weak to care about anything that's going on.
Alec Baldwin appears in the movie. His character is pointless and seems to be created just to have Alec Baldwin in your movie in hopes that his star power will fill seats. The same goes with Danny Glover's cameo like role in the movie.
I actually went to see the movie because Leo Howard was in it. I'm aware of the young actor from his marshal arts driven Disney TV show, Kickin it. The movie does have him do some kicks and punches but not enough to salvage the flick.
But really, Andron has a bad story arc and messes up the game they play and leaves you with nothing overall.
The game concept works. Each player has a symbol tattooed on their neck that matches a symbol on a wall to get a cool weapon. Most players got simple guns while other got some really cool stuff straight out of a video game (like one guy got a really cool Mega Man like weapon). Once in a while they battle androids robots that look like ninjas, as well as fighting each other until their numbers dwindled down.
As a film the story was just too weak to care about anything that's going on.
Alec Baldwin appears in the movie. His character is pointless and seems to be created just to have Alec Baldwin in your movie in hopes that his star power will fill seats. The same goes with Danny Glover's cameo like role in the movie.
I actually went to see the movie because Leo Howard was in it. I'm aware of the young actor from his marshal arts driven Disney TV show, Kickin it. The movie does have him do some kicks and punches but not enough to salvage the flick.
But really, Andron has a bad story arc and messes up the game they play and leaves you with nothing overall.
For the love of god,PLEASE make it stop
don-152273 June 2016
I don't know if this is the absolute worst movie that I've ever seen but it is certainly a contender. Believe me, it's not a movie that's so bad that it's good . . it's just BAD.
It's a vampire that sucks up an hour and forty minutes of your time that could have been spent on something more entertaining, like hammering No.2 pencils into your corneas.
This movie does not suspend disbelief, it celebrates it. My impression was that everyone involved just wanted to get the thing in the "done" column so they could go do something (anything) else.
It seems that no effort was spent on trying to immerse the viewer so it was torture seeing it through to the end as a detached observer rather than being drawn in to a subjective, personal experience. They just didn't make me care a bit about any of the characters', it would have been more interesting and more dramatic watching insects fly around one of those bug zappers.
The only award this stinker deserves is a felony conviction for impersonating entertainment.
It's a vampire that sucks up an hour and forty minutes of your time that could have been spent on something more entertaining, like hammering No.2 pencils into your corneas.
This movie does not suspend disbelief, it celebrates it. My impression was that everyone involved just wanted to get the thing in the "done" column so they could go do something (anything) else.
It seems that no effort was spent on trying to immerse the viewer so it was torture seeing it through to the end as a detached observer rather than being drawn in to a subjective, personal experience. They just didn't make me care a bit about any of the characters', it would have been more interesting and more dramatic watching insects fly around one of those bug zappers.
The only award this stinker deserves is a felony conviction for impersonating entertainment.
Terrible writing, bad acting, unoriginal theme
missionary-5677115 June 2016
Warning: Spoilers
***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS***
While I agree with a previous reviewer that the acting in this movie was terrible, I have to say that quite frankly, it really didn't matter. The best acting in the world can't make a badly written script suddenly become good. And a badly written script can make an otherwise great actor look REALLY BAD.
***SPOILERS FOLLOW FROM HERE*** So the theme here is that the world is badly over-populated and can't sustain the full population. Nearly everyone on the planet is a slave, with a small handful of people running things who are not. Let's pause right there and consider the logic behind this for a moment. If there are SO MANY people on the planet that losing 9 BILLION from the population doesn't even put a dent in the population crisis, and nearly all of those alive are slaves who hate the way they're forced to live, that's EASILY enough to start a rebellion and overthrow the small number who are making their lives miserable. But let's suspend our disbelief and put that logic aside for the moment. If that many people are unable to overthrow the elite few, then those elite few must have some REALLY SICK advanced technology, right? OK, so if they have that kind of tech (which is clearly the case judging by the massive flying ships near and at the end of the movie), why the heck haven't they left the planet and colonized the Moon, Mars, or just plain built massive space stations complete with colossal hydroponic farms to accommodate all those people? I mean, with that many billions of slaves, it wouldn't take long at all. And you can't say there aren't enough mineral resources to accomplish it, since they clearly have enough tech to mine asteroids, the moon, or other planets, not to mention cannibalizing and recycling outdated tech for its materials.
So what's their answer to over-population instead? ***insert fake sarcastic tone*** Let's create a game that kills off 90% of the people who bet on it. I mean, we're insanely greedy, megalomaniacs, so if we have too many slaves to support everyone, it's probably best to just kill off a few billion of them rather than using that man-power to expand our power and wealth, right? ***end sarcasm***
I really wonder if the writers ever bothered to stop and think about the logic behind this script (or lack thereof). Combine the bad writing with a juxtaposition against other movies with similar themes (Hunger Games, Maze Runner series, Cube (not that I liked Cube all that much, but even THAT had better writing and more of a point than THIS movie)) and this movie totally bombs, which is a huge understatement. This movie is comparable to a 2-year old with a toy steering wheel on their lap, sitting next to mom or dad in the car and believing that driving with their toy is comparable to what the parent is doing with the real car. The simple fact that I've even taken the time to write this review is an OVERWHELMING testament to how bad this movie was. Seriously. I have never written a movie review before, even though I've seen some truly horrible movies. But this one was so bad, I actually created an IMDb account for the first time ever for the sole purpose of writing this review so I could let people know how horrible the movie was. It really was THAT BAD! Taking the time to write this review was a FAR better use of my time than actually watching the movie.
While I agree with a previous reviewer that the acting in this movie was terrible, I have to say that quite frankly, it really didn't matter. The best acting in the world can't make a badly written script suddenly become good. And a badly written script can make an otherwise great actor look REALLY BAD.
***SPOILERS FOLLOW FROM HERE*** So the theme here is that the world is badly over-populated and can't sustain the full population. Nearly everyone on the planet is a slave, with a small handful of people running things who are not. Let's pause right there and consider the logic behind this for a moment. If there are SO MANY people on the planet that losing 9 BILLION from the population doesn't even put a dent in the population crisis, and nearly all of those alive are slaves who hate the way they're forced to live, that's EASILY enough to start a rebellion and overthrow the small number who are making their lives miserable. But let's suspend our disbelief and put that logic aside for the moment. If that many people are unable to overthrow the elite few, then those elite few must have some REALLY SICK advanced technology, right? OK, so if they have that kind of tech (which is clearly the case judging by the massive flying ships near and at the end of the movie), why the heck haven't they left the planet and colonized the Moon, Mars, or just plain built massive space stations complete with colossal hydroponic farms to accommodate all those people? I mean, with that many billions of slaves, it wouldn't take long at all. And you can't say there aren't enough mineral resources to accomplish it, since they clearly have enough tech to mine asteroids, the moon, or other planets, not to mention cannibalizing and recycling outdated tech for its materials.
So what's their answer to over-population instead? ***insert fake sarcastic tone*** Let's create a game that kills off 90% of the people who bet on it. I mean, we're insanely greedy, megalomaniacs, so if we have too many slaves to support everyone, it's probably best to just kill off a few billion of them rather than using that man-power to expand our power and wealth, right? ***end sarcasm***
I really wonder if the writers ever bothered to stop and think about the logic behind this script (or lack thereof). Combine the bad writing with a juxtaposition against other movies with similar themes (Hunger Games, Maze Runner series, Cube (not that I liked Cube all that much, but even THAT had better writing and more of a point than THIS movie)) and this movie totally bombs, which is a huge understatement. This movie is comparable to a 2-year old with a toy steering wheel on their lap, sitting next to mom or dad in the car and believing that driving with their toy is comparable to what the parent is doing with the real car. The simple fact that I've even taken the time to write this review is an OVERWHELMING testament to how bad this movie was. Seriously. I have never written a movie review before, even though I've seen some truly horrible movies. But this one was so bad, I actually created an IMDb account for the first time ever for the sole purpose of writing this review so I could let people know how horrible the movie was. It really was THAT BAD! Taking the time to write this review was a FAR better use of my time than actually watching the movie.
Dull, meaningless and cheap-looking special effects. Avoid at all cost !
peterp-450-29871627 September 2016
"10 must enter the challenge. The goal is the conquest of freedom. Welcome to the season premiere of the redemption games."
There are bad movies. There are horribly bad movies. And there's "Andròn: The Black Labyrinth". Normally I succeed in finding something positive in a movie. But no matter how hard I looked for it, I couldn't find anything positive in this one. Whatever aspect I even looked at. The conclusion is that it's in each case a failure. It's nothing new that nowadays a moderate version of a successful Hollywood product is being made once and a while. They try to ride the waves of success of those blockbusters, of course. You would expect them to be at least a bit more creative with the stolen concept. Even this film doesn't bother about that. It simply copies the stuff shamelessly.
Ultimately, this looks like a kind of "The Hunger Games". It's set in a maze as in "The Maze Runner". And all of this is happening in a post-apocalyptic, overcrowded world, as you could admire in "Elysium". In "Elysium" the poorest population lived on earth in deplorable conditions, while the happy few floated in an orbit on an artificial paradise. In "Andròn" they keep the world population in balance by organizing bets on a contest organized in the black labyrinth. At stake are the lives of the wretched population itself. So, if you bet on the wrong person, it's goodbye glorious life. A kind of "Bet to Win". So it's better you don't lose.
Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover weren't really picky in terms of movies recent years. That's a fact. Baldwin starred briefly in "Still Alice", but I can't remember any film after "Lethal Weapon" with Glover in it, which was actually worth a watch. But what got into them to collaborate on this project, is a mystery to me. Not that they play such a weighty roles. And they aren't very excited about it either. The ten unfortunates who get caught in this maze where they have to struggle for survival, are all unknown actors to me. To be honest, this was noticeable. Sometimes it seemed like they were waiting for the prompter, so they could remember their next dialogue line. Even the battle scenes with terrible looking Ninja Turtles were poorly coordinated. It seemed sometimes like an ordinary game of tag. Mostly they just waited for their opponents to attack them.
The only one I recognized was Skin, better known as the lead singer of Skunk Anansie. I'm not a big fan of this band. And I won't become a big fan of her as an actress either. It all felt pretty forced. Although the characters sometimes seem really stupid and meaningless, the actors themselves aren't to blame. It's because of the worthless and confusing story. Most of the time you're wondering what on earth it's all about. The victims run around in a circular maze. But I guess it's pretty hard to walk in a circle when you look at the geometry of the walls. And that's the only thing you can expect. A group of contestants plagued with amnesia, stumbling through this maze (although it looks more like a factory building by the way) all distraught and confused. Alec Baldwin controls the show using high-tech gadgets. And Glover's contribution can be called ridiculous.
For those who have reached the end without falling asleep, the closing scene was really disappointing. Unprecedented one of the worst movies I've seen this year. A meaningless story, pitiful performances and also quite cheap-looking special effects. It wouldn't surprise me this will be a new way of torturing, used in a dictatorial country somewhere. Mandatory watching "Andròn : The Black Labyrinth" for hours. Painful!
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There are bad movies. There are horribly bad movies. And there's "Andròn: The Black Labyrinth". Normally I succeed in finding something positive in a movie. But no matter how hard I looked for it, I couldn't find anything positive in this one. Whatever aspect I even looked at. The conclusion is that it's in each case a failure. It's nothing new that nowadays a moderate version of a successful Hollywood product is being made once and a while. They try to ride the waves of success of those blockbusters, of course. You would expect them to be at least a bit more creative with the stolen concept. Even this film doesn't bother about that. It simply copies the stuff shamelessly.
Ultimately, this looks like a kind of "The Hunger Games". It's set in a maze as in "The Maze Runner". And all of this is happening in a post-apocalyptic, overcrowded world, as you could admire in "Elysium". In "Elysium" the poorest population lived on earth in deplorable conditions, while the happy few floated in an orbit on an artificial paradise. In "Andròn" they keep the world population in balance by organizing bets on a contest organized in the black labyrinth. At stake are the lives of the wretched population itself. So, if you bet on the wrong person, it's goodbye glorious life. A kind of "Bet to Win". So it's better you don't lose.
Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover weren't really picky in terms of movies recent years. That's a fact. Baldwin starred briefly in "Still Alice", but I can't remember any film after "Lethal Weapon" with Glover in it, which was actually worth a watch. But what got into them to collaborate on this project, is a mystery to me. Not that they play such a weighty roles. And they aren't very excited about it either. The ten unfortunates who get caught in this maze where they have to struggle for survival, are all unknown actors to me. To be honest, this was noticeable. Sometimes it seemed like they were waiting for the prompter, so they could remember their next dialogue line. Even the battle scenes with terrible looking Ninja Turtles were poorly coordinated. It seemed sometimes like an ordinary game of tag. Mostly they just waited for their opponents to attack them.
The only one I recognized was Skin, better known as the lead singer of Skunk Anansie. I'm not a big fan of this band. And I won't become a big fan of her as an actress either. It all felt pretty forced. Although the characters sometimes seem really stupid and meaningless, the actors themselves aren't to blame. It's because of the worthless and confusing story. Most of the time you're wondering what on earth it's all about. The victims run around in a circular maze. But I guess it's pretty hard to walk in a circle when you look at the geometry of the walls. And that's the only thing you can expect. A group of contestants plagued with amnesia, stumbling through this maze (although it looks more like a factory building by the way) all distraught and confused. Alec Baldwin controls the show using high-tech gadgets. And Glover's contribution can be called ridiculous.
For those who have reached the end without falling asleep, the closing scene was really disappointing. Unprecedented one of the worst movies I've seen this year. A meaningless story, pitiful performances and also quite cheap-looking special effects. It wouldn't surprise me this will be a new way of torturing, used in a dictatorial country somewhere. Mandatory watching "Andròn : The Black Labyrinth" for hours. Painful!
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Incredibly bad
brunnengustel19 January 2017
This movie is unbearable bad.
Bad acting is cloaked with a story of such stupidity that it is only matched by its complexity. Nearly not bearable and completely useless. No Message, just fragments of mismatching story parts combined with brain dead violence.
If - after watching this movie - I'd been asked for a plot, I'd honestly have to say: "Sorry, no clue. But there's dramatic music, minor special effects and some violence"
An absolute need not see.
Let's hope the don't waste any money for a sequel.
Bad acting is cloaked with a story of such stupidity that it is only matched by its complexity. Nearly not bearable and completely useless. No Message, just fragments of mismatching story parts combined with brain dead violence.
If - after watching this movie - I'd been asked for a plot, I'd honestly have to say: "Sorry, no clue. But there's dramatic music, minor special effects and some violence"
An absolute need not see.
Let's hope the don't waste any money for a sequel.
This is a first, for me..
skinn6825 August 2016
This movie is SO bad, that it needs to get some kind of recognition with at least a short review. In my life I've seen many, many bad movies, but believe me, even in the worst cases I would always find a reason to finish it...maybe a bit of curiosity, or just to see HOW low it could go, or by just telling myself that if I had already wasted one hour of my life, why not making it one and a half and see if there was a remote chance it got (dare I say it?) 'better'? But this one was just too much, I stopped it 40 minutes in and never turned back. For some reason, I had not checked IMDb's ratings before, but I certainly did after, and it's funny to realize that I have now spent more time on the film's page on IMDb than watching the movie itself. Yes, it's THAT bad.
The only thing going for this movie is:
ksgrisse16 September 2016
Baldwin and Glover only had cameos. (Thankfully, as both of them suck) Any more than that and it would rate a ZERO! (I wish that rating was an option on IMDb)
That's all I have, but I MUST type 10 lines... so here are the remaining lines.
This movie really sucks.
This movie will take away time from your life that you will never be able to get back.
Why does IMDb force us to write more than is necessary?
My first 2 sentences were sufficient to make my point.
This line is completely pointless and unnecessary.
That's all I have, but I MUST type 10 lines... so here are the remaining lines.
This movie really sucks.
This movie will take away time from your life that you will never be able to get back.
Why does IMDb force us to write more than is necessary?
My first 2 sentences were sufficient to make my point.
This line is completely pointless and unnecessary.
You'll want to go out of your way to miss this one
Leofwine_draca17 July 2018
Warning: Spoilers
ANDRON is a gloomy and derivative sci-fi B-movie made with a cast of has-been British TV actors and a singer who simply cannot act. It was shot on the fly in a matter of weeks, with a number of contestants trapped in an underground maze complex and forced to battle against android robots to the death. Sadly, the stilted execution is so poor as to render this near unwatchable, and you do wonder just what poor old Michelle Ryan's casting agent was thinking. Alec Baldwin slums it in one of those behind-a-desk roles and you have to feel even sorrier for a barely-glimpsed Danny Glover. Add in a handful of bad CGI and you have a film you'll want to go out of your way to miss.
There's no Light !
zoran_kamen4 June 2016
Remember those days of your life when you were depressed and just saw everything blurred, gray and lifeless. Like world and life had no colors.. or at least no happy, joyful and light colors. I felt similarly watching this movie right from begin till end. I have no intention to disgrace director of this movie, I am just sincerely writing about my experience watching this film. Movie started lifelessly, continued lifelessly and ended so. Acting was similar, like they all actors suffered from deep depression and under influence of some heavy medicine which made their perception and mind just dark and heavy. I also felt during movie like I cannot breath deeply at all and had just limited amount of air before I died -I felt like being in suffocating room with no air or stucked in some pipe and couldn't really move much ! I remember my gut feeling telling me before watching movie that it sucks and that only my time and energy will be wasted. It was true, that subtle gut feeling. I also remember wanting to watch Spider- man from 2002 by Sam Raimi. I regretted for not listening my guidance ! Or I should have done something more useful for me or others.! It was truly torture to watch this and I love movies. Why would someone made movie where you feel just worse and worse as watching the movie ?? This movie could parents use as effective means for punishing the naughty children ! Or state could punish criminals by forcing them to watch this movie 3 times per day. That would be more than enough !
Why sometimes the trailer says it all!!!!
Ariela228416 July 2016
I would rate andron as a -1 but i give them the credit of at least putting this reject of the hunger games wannabe together somewhat and getting Danny Glover and Alec Baldwin to star in it unconvincingly!!
From the trailer i sense this is a made for sci fi channel or cloo , Sunday night at 8pm TV special! it is so mind boggingly bad that my sense of even writing a review for it is leaving a bad taste in my mouth!
From the opening of them not remembering where they are , then getting chased and followed by the upstarts who think this game isn't fair sounds familiar anyone.
Please you have been warned don't watch!!!!!
From the trailer i sense this is a made for sci fi channel or cloo , Sunday night at 8pm TV special! it is so mind boggingly bad that my sense of even writing a review for it is leaving a bad taste in my mouth!
From the opening of them not remembering where they are , then getting chased and followed by the upstarts who think this game isn't fair sounds familiar anyone.
Please you have been warned don't watch!!!!!
Don't bother wasting your time.
erixstrong24 August 2016
Really, really, really cheap version of hunger games. Bad acting, bad realization and bad direction.
Most importantly, bad writing.
If you are a science-fiction fan, don't waste your time on this movie cause it looks like a bad TV movie.
Exactly like PaladinWhitestar, I actually created an IMDb account for the first time ever for the sole purpose of writing this review so I could let people know how horrible the movie was.
It is probably the worst film I've seen.
Honestly I recommend not wasting your time on this film unless you have nothing better to do.
Most importantly, bad writing.
If you are a science-fiction fan, don't waste your time on this movie cause it looks like a bad TV movie.
Exactly like PaladinWhitestar, I actually created an IMDb account for the first time ever for the sole purpose of writing this review so I could let people know how horrible the movie was.
It is probably the worst film I've seen.
Honestly I recommend not wasting your time on this film unless you have nothing better to do.
Not Good. (Typical British understated way of saying, 'Fracking Awful'.)
junk-monkey30 November 2018
Well it's nice to know the Crap Italian Science Fiction Film industry isn't entirely dead.
Andron is a totally awful Hunger Games / Maze Runner knockoff that featured a standout awful performance from someone called Skin, who looks gorgeous, is, I understand, some sort of singer, but has the acting chops of an untrained high school wannabe. Unfortunately for her (and us) she gets screeds of undeliverable clunking expositional backstory dialogue to deliver. I would guess the writer/director's first language was not English because some of it is pure gibberish. A proper actor would have put their foot down and reworked their lines till it made some sense.
Danny Glover and Alec Baldwin made some pocket money standing in front of (different) green screens for a couple of days - in the sure and certain knowledge that no one they knew or cared about would ever see what they did in front of them.
Andron is a totally awful Hunger Games / Maze Runner knockoff that featured a standout awful performance from someone called Skin, who looks gorgeous, is, I understand, some sort of singer, but has the acting chops of an untrained high school wannabe. Unfortunately for her (and us) she gets screeds of undeliverable clunking expositional backstory dialogue to deliver. I would guess the writer/director's first language was not English because some of it is pure gibberish. A proper actor would have put their foot down and reworked their lines till it made some sense.
Danny Glover and Alec Baldwin made some pocket money standing in front of (different) green screens for a couple of days - in the sure and certain knowledge that no one they knew or cared about would ever see what they did in front of them.
A wasted effort
TdSmth52 January 2017
In the future, 8 billion people have been wiped-out by "the network." The 2 billion people left are all slaves to the 9 corporations that run the world. Their chance at freedom is to take part in the "Redemption Games." Alternatively, if they lose, they die. And so do all the slaves that have placed bets in this or that character. They get to see the games in first person perspective with some virtual virtual reality glasses as the contestants have been injected with nano-retinal cameras.
So we meet the current sorry set of contestants. They are in some abandoned facility. But their memory has been wiped clean so they don't even know they are in a contest. How's that for an exciting life-or-death contest? These people don't know what year it is, who they are, where they are, why they are there, or what's going on. On top of that they don't enter the game at the same time, some of them have been there longer than others. So we meet them as they meet each other. Some are violent, some are peaceful. Some are reasonable, some aren't. The facility itself is supposed to be a maze of sorts, but if things weren't difficult enough, it changes as well, walls move closing the people off, or separating them, or killing them.
In charge of the game is Alec Baldwin. He answers to Danny Glover who is the chancellor. He has a slave for whom he's developing feelings. When things get out of hand in the maze, Baldwin dispatches some tough girl to take care of things. Occasionally, the contestants are attacked by some guards.
The contestants discover they have tattoos on their necks, which match a stone maze found on some walls, which allows the specific person to obtain some power. In one case one guy puts his arm in the stone maze and gets a weapon attached, that he rarely uses even when attacked by guards.
While the contestant run around with little chance of anything we eventually learn something about some of them, as Baldwin grants them some memory. One of them was a guard, another was a programmer who took part in creating all this, another one even was a former contestant.
Apparently things do look up for the contestants and that gets Baldwin in trouble who has to gather all his resources to challenge to contestants. And we learn of the outcome of the games.
All this sounds OK enough, but it only means that a lot of effort went in this movie, mostly by the writers. It's not particularly original, but the back story is good enough. Unfortunately, there's no way around it that Andron is a huge failure. The cast is awful, you couldn't care less about any of these people. Baldwin is the only one who plays along and acts. The direction is completely clueless. This is supposed to be action sci-fi, but the action is filmed so poorly, they would have been better off not showing any action altogether. Not to mention that the director doesn't manage to get anything resembling a decent performance out of anyone but Baldwin. I don't think Andron is even passable enough for the international market. A good movie was possible with this script I think, but this crew ruins it completely.
So we meet the current sorry set of contestants. They are in some abandoned facility. But their memory has been wiped clean so they don't even know they are in a contest. How's that for an exciting life-or-death contest? These people don't know what year it is, who they are, where they are, why they are there, or what's going on. On top of that they don't enter the game at the same time, some of them have been there longer than others. So we meet them as they meet each other. Some are violent, some are peaceful. Some are reasonable, some aren't. The facility itself is supposed to be a maze of sorts, but if things weren't difficult enough, it changes as well, walls move closing the people off, or separating them, or killing them.
In charge of the game is Alec Baldwin. He answers to Danny Glover who is the chancellor. He has a slave for whom he's developing feelings. When things get out of hand in the maze, Baldwin dispatches some tough girl to take care of things. Occasionally, the contestants are attacked by some guards.
The contestants discover they have tattoos on their necks, which match a stone maze found on some walls, which allows the specific person to obtain some power. In one case one guy puts his arm in the stone maze and gets a weapon attached, that he rarely uses even when attacked by guards.
While the contestant run around with little chance of anything we eventually learn something about some of them, as Baldwin grants them some memory. One of them was a guard, another was a programmer who took part in creating all this, another one even was a former contestant.
Apparently things do look up for the contestants and that gets Baldwin in trouble who has to gather all his resources to challenge to contestants. And we learn of the outcome of the games.
All this sounds OK enough, but it only means that a lot of effort went in this movie, mostly by the writers. It's not particularly original, but the back story is good enough. Unfortunately, there's no way around it that Andron is a huge failure. The cast is awful, you couldn't care less about any of these people. Baldwin is the only one who plays along and acts. The direction is completely clueless. This is supposed to be action sci-fi, but the action is filmed so poorly, they would have been better off not showing any action altogether. Not to mention that the director doesn't manage to get anything resembling a decent performance out of anyone but Baldwin. I don't think Andron is even passable enough for the international market. A good movie was possible with this script I think, but this crew ruins it completely.
One of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life
Krypteia126 September 2017
The world is now run by Really Evil Corporations, who for evil reasons nuked the earth and enslaved all 2 billion remaining people. Every year, to keep the slaves from revolting, the Really Evil Corporations hold a Hunger Games, er, Andron tournament.
Ten slaves are chosen to compete in an Evil Maze for the ultimate prize - their freedom. Also, time travel exists, so the slaves are from different eras and the game itself happens in a different time period each year. But the other 2 billion slaves can still watch the Evil proceedings in real time because the players have nanocameras embedded in their eyes, and they have really good WiFi.
The maze is haunted by an evil ghost lady who can shoot lightning out of her fingertips, and evil ninjas with red pants and glowing LED eyes. Also, the maze drops random weapons for the contestants, because video games. Oh, and the contestants have selective amnesia.
The entire thing is orchestrated by Evil Alec Baldwin, whose presence in this movie tells us he spent all that Capital One money. Evil Alec sits behind a desk in a well-appointed palace and manipulates the game while yelling at his hot Secretary. But Evil Danny Glover, who also needs money, is Evil Alec's boss and the two have creative differences about how they should gruesomely kill people in this maze.
Maybe they're worried about ratings. But how can they be when the only audience is 2 billion slaves who don't get any other channels? They're the only game in town, like baseball in mid-July.
Anyway, this is hands-down one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. The plot is nonsensical. The dialogue veers from cringe to cringe. The movie even robs the characters of names, so we get conversations like this:
"Hey, where's that guy with the glasses?"
"I don't know, wasn't he with that other girl?"
"What other girl?"
There is one mind-blowing thing about Andron: That this script wasn't immediately tossed in the reject bin, nevermind given the greenlight. It's one of those movies that makes you marvel at how ANYONE could have thought it was a good idea.
Fair warning, this movie is not the kind of bad that's fun to watch because it's unintentionally hilarious. It's just bad. Proceed at your own risk.
Ten slaves are chosen to compete in an Evil Maze for the ultimate prize - their freedom. Also, time travel exists, so the slaves are from different eras and the game itself happens in a different time period each year. But the other 2 billion slaves can still watch the Evil proceedings in real time because the players have nanocameras embedded in their eyes, and they have really good WiFi.
The maze is haunted by an evil ghost lady who can shoot lightning out of her fingertips, and evil ninjas with red pants and glowing LED eyes. Also, the maze drops random weapons for the contestants, because video games. Oh, and the contestants have selective amnesia.
The entire thing is orchestrated by Evil Alec Baldwin, whose presence in this movie tells us he spent all that Capital One money. Evil Alec sits behind a desk in a well-appointed palace and manipulates the game while yelling at his hot Secretary. But Evil Danny Glover, who also needs money, is Evil Alec's boss and the two have creative differences about how they should gruesomely kill people in this maze.
Maybe they're worried about ratings. But how can they be when the only audience is 2 billion slaves who don't get any other channels? They're the only game in town, like baseball in mid-July.
Anyway, this is hands-down one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. The plot is nonsensical. The dialogue veers from cringe to cringe. The movie even robs the characters of names, so we get conversations like this:
"Hey, where's that guy with the glasses?"
"I don't know, wasn't he with that other girl?"
"What other girl?"
There is one mind-blowing thing about Andron: That this script wasn't immediately tossed in the reject bin, nevermind given the greenlight. It's one of those movies that makes you marvel at how ANYONE could have thought it was a good idea.
Fair warning, this movie is not the kind of bad that's fun to watch because it's unintentionally hilarious. It's just bad. Proceed at your own risk.
A Hunger Games that makes me Hunger for a good movie
Kamurai253 April 2020
Crap watch, will not watch against, and don't recommend.
Watch Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover cash a paycheck in a really bad knockoff of what someone thought was Hunger Games, but was a knockoff of Maze Runner or any number of generic arena killers.
On the same day where I hardly got any explanation from a different movie (go watch Southbound instead), I got 90% more explanation than I wanted in this.
They seem bent on having a meaningful story to why things are happening, and you absolutely don't need it: Hunger Games took 3 books to make their point and this tried to do just as much with more complexity in one movie, without a source material that am audience could reference.
Ultimately, avoid this, go watch Hunger Games, Maze Runner or 32, if you can handle it.
Watch Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover cash a paycheck in a really bad knockoff of what someone thought was Hunger Games, but was a knockoff of Maze Runner or any number of generic arena killers.
On the same day where I hardly got any explanation from a different movie (go watch Southbound instead), I got 90% more explanation than I wanted in this.
They seem bent on having a meaningful story to why things are happening, and you absolutely don't need it: Hunger Games took 3 books to make their point and this tried to do just as much with more complexity in one movie, without a source material that am audience could reference.
Ultimately, avoid this, go watch Hunger Games, Maze Runner or 32, if you can handle it.
A sad excuse for a movie!
krice233 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I am normally quite forgiving when watching a film. Even when I'm critical I still find redemptive qualities Somewhere. But this, this is not something even I can forgive. I gave it a #1 rating only because they managed to complete and actually distribute this poor excuse for a movie. Not even Alec Baldwin or Danny Glover could pull this off. Their characters could have been played by Anyone and I have to believe this will go down in both their resumes as the film they most regret making. It is the type of film a leading actor might wish to purchase all known copies of, just to destroy the evidence! I can't even bring myself to write a serious synopsis; where would I even start and what is there to say? It's just a bad, poorly made movie and I strongly urge you to reject any thoughts of watching , even to satisfy your curiosity of what "bad" looks like. In the end Baldwin's character says, "Welcome to level 2" to the survivors, as if somebody actually thought there might be a sequel?! My best guess here is someone lost a bet and was forced into making this; don't make the mistake of following them down the rabbit hole. All you will find is more hole.
That's a really bad movie, really bad.
Paulo_Clemente1 May 2017
Let me start for saying, what the hell are Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover doing in a movie like this? The acting on this movie is so weak that even both of them are ridiculous in they parts. It could be a good idea for a plot, in the future somewhere in the year 2154 a group of people is ruling the earth after a catastrophe, and they made a game where they put some people in a maze where only one can survive.
Good idea, but all the rest is wrong, the maze is stupid, the dialogues sometimes look like children play at school, the acting is uauau what can i say, bad is not enough.
After 93 minutes you want to quickly forget the movie, if you love your time on earth please stay away of this movie.
Good idea, but all the rest is wrong, the maze is stupid, the dialogues sometimes look like children play at school, the acting is uauau what can i say, bad is not enough.
After 93 minutes you want to quickly forget the movie, if you love your time on earth please stay away of this movie.
bad acting, bad plot, bad movie
rmarkd6 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I think I ended up seeing this movie 1.5 times as parts of it seemed memorable. I guess past me turned it off halfway. Present me should have taken the hint. Instead... ugh, waste of time. Not that I was going to cure cancer had I not wasted my time with this movie, but I feel like doing nothing at all would have been better than watching this. Maybe saved 2-3 cents of energy with the TV off.
Indeed, the reason I revived my imdb account was to write out a review for this so I don't make the mistake of watching it yet again.
This movie seems to be a bit of Cube, Maze Runner, Hunger Games (IMO more Hunger games-ey than Battle Royal-ey), and Alec Baldwin being unintentionally goofy. Danny Glover is in it too as I guess he needed some extra cash?
A bunch of people wake up in some abandoned warehouse. they don't know who they are (Maze runner). Different rooms have different things going on (Cube). Looks like the goal is to kill each other (Hunger Games -- HG). People in different districts (HG) can bet on the survivors. If the person they pick survives, they win some freedom or something. If not, they die. Alec Baldwin plays the game master (HG) and can control the rooms and memories. For some reason, there a ghost girl who, shocker!, ends up being the sister of one of the contestants. And I guess there's some subplot of Alec Baldwin gaming the game (HG).
Someone said "hey Hunger Games and Maze Runner made alot of money. Let's take the worst of both, add some bad acting, and make things confusing because either we can't figure out what to do with this concept or a three day weekend was coming up so let's just wrap things up quickly."
Indeed, the reason I revived my imdb account was to write out a review for this so I don't make the mistake of watching it yet again.
This movie seems to be a bit of Cube, Maze Runner, Hunger Games (IMO more Hunger games-ey than Battle Royal-ey), and Alec Baldwin being unintentionally goofy. Danny Glover is in it too as I guess he needed some extra cash?
A bunch of people wake up in some abandoned warehouse. they don't know who they are (Maze runner). Different rooms have different things going on (Cube). Looks like the goal is to kill each other (Hunger Games -- HG). People in different districts (HG) can bet on the survivors. If the person they pick survives, they win some freedom or something. If not, they die. Alec Baldwin plays the game master (HG) and can control the rooms and memories. For some reason, there a ghost girl who, shocker!, ends up being the sister of one of the contestants. And I guess there's some subplot of Alec Baldwin gaming the game (HG).
Someone said "hey Hunger Games and Maze Runner made alot of money. Let's take the worst of both, add some bad acting, and make things confusing because either we can't figure out what to do with this concept or a three day weekend was coming up so let's just wrap things up quickly."
What the hell just happened!!!!!!!!!
drronaldchacko25 March 2018
Usually a movie has a start and a end.
This movie just skipped everything. I didnt understand the start and the end of the movie. The moviemakers tried to bring in some kind of story, but that just raised more questions and answers.
I am dissapointed that Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover chose to act in such a low class movie.
Dont even waste a dime to watch this movie.
This movie just skipped everything. I didnt understand the start and the end of the movie. The moviemakers tried to bring in some kind of story, but that just raised more questions and answers.
I am dissapointed that Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover chose to act in such a low class movie.
Dont even waste a dime to watch this movie.
Foreign Director couldn't communicate with cast
midge5622 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This is what happens when you hire a foreign director who can't speak English and therefore can't communicate with his cast. He was on the DVD extras. Since he didn't understand a word he was filming, how could he make a decent movie or anticipate what the English speaking cast or audience would like?
I have not seen hunger games, etc, so I'm not judging this movie by comparison. However, this so-called labyrinth looked like they were filming in an abandoned power plant. I sure hope it wasn't a nuke plant for the sake of the actors. It wouldn't be the first time a director exposed his entire cast to radiation & they ended up with cancer. (Howard Hughes; The Conqueror film with John Wayne, Hayward, Moorehead & 90 others got cancer from filming in the Utah desert downwind near the Nevada nuclear test site).
The control room & cooling towers & water systems in this Andron film sure looked like an old nuclear power plant.
Oblivion (a movie I loved, was partially filmed in an abandoned power plant in New Orleans. It was not nuclear as far as I know but was leaking water all over the cast, crew & equipment while filming Oblivion. These abandoned power plants are pretty awful. Wet, rusting, dangerous, crumbling, possibly toxic and are rotten locations to use for filming. But they come cheap.
I gave Andron 3 stars because I actually loved the few glimpses of the futuristic city. One of the best future cities I've seen. Too bad more of the movie wasn't filmed there using a different plot. Gleaming glass future cities would have been a much better theme.
Baldwin & Glover should have reversed their roles. This is not a racial statement. It's a personality observation. Baldwin would have done much better as the asinine Chancellor with Glover as the game Host. It was also in bad taste to show Glover owning a slave. He was clearly uncomfortable.
I agree the ridiculously oversized office the size of the French Palace with a single desk & CG screens & controls in the air was indeed absurd. It reminded me of the oversized, empty CG sets on the V 2009 TV reboot series.
There should have been more technology & a place for Baldwin's assistant to sit instead of her walking across a football stadium sized room in a rubber suit every time he wanted to have her perform a task. (like ST:Voyager's 7 of 9).
There was the total lack of logic behind the plot. 9 Billion killed in a catastrophe caused by this handful of corporations running the world. Using the games as a way to thin out the remaining 2 billion slave population they couldn't feed by encouraging them to bet their lives on which of the 10 contenders would win; & die if they picked a loser.
The lack of logic is where they claim they can't feed the 2 billion surviving slaves. They should have the slaves plowing & planting crops & orchards & process fish & food production instead of sitting around, filth encrusted, watching games. 2 billion slave laborers can do a lot to produce food & the privileged few elite would not need to kill off their labor force. These few elite leaders were clearly Not smart. It also made no sense why their slaves were filthy & living in squalor since the gleaming city of glass spread as far as you could see. So plenty of available room & technology for their slave laborers. Also, if they killed off all the slaves, these elite idiots would have to do their own work. Somehow, this population thinning reminds me of the Georgia guide stone. NWO
Then we are stuck watching these actors in their young 20's, who have no memories of who & what they are; wandering around this nasty abandoned power plant, doing stupid things & getting picked off; one by one by trick walls & glowing eyed robots. Victims too stupid to stick together or fashion weapons & too stupid to not leave any weapons lying around. The females (except 2) stand there looking stupid while the guys are pounded trying to bare hand fight robots.
I wouldn't chastise the acting skills of this cast. They were young actors mostly in their early 20's. Even famous actors often started doing low budget flicks to pay the bills & get experience. Some of the older actors do the same. Remember Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns?
The problems on this film were a rotten writer and a rotten director who couldn't communicate with his cast. But they all had to praise him in order to get hired by others.
The best way to watch this is with your finger on the fast forward button. Go normal speed whenever you see Baldwin, Glover, the future world or the bald black female because she has the entire plot in her dialogue & acting. Also, go to normal speed whenever they are outside. Otherwise, just fast forward. The victims don't know who they are or what they are doing there, so you won't miss much.
I usually fast forward through any battles or fights on any movie. There is no value in watching mindless violence no matter how fancy the special effects may be. I have no desire to watch faces punched in. Also, how many laser, sword or gunshots do you have to see? They all look the same. It is boring. I would much rather see sci-fi, high tech & intelligent interaction & fresh new story lines like the film Oblivion with Tom Cruise & Morgan Freeman.
As I said, the futuristic city is the best part of this film. Have your fast forward ready for the rest as I described.
I have not seen hunger games, etc, so I'm not judging this movie by comparison. However, this so-called labyrinth looked like they were filming in an abandoned power plant. I sure hope it wasn't a nuke plant for the sake of the actors. It wouldn't be the first time a director exposed his entire cast to radiation & they ended up with cancer. (Howard Hughes; The Conqueror film with John Wayne, Hayward, Moorehead & 90 others got cancer from filming in the Utah desert downwind near the Nevada nuclear test site).
The control room & cooling towers & water systems in this Andron film sure looked like an old nuclear power plant.
Oblivion (a movie I loved, was partially filmed in an abandoned power plant in New Orleans. It was not nuclear as far as I know but was leaking water all over the cast, crew & equipment while filming Oblivion. These abandoned power plants are pretty awful. Wet, rusting, dangerous, crumbling, possibly toxic and are rotten locations to use for filming. But they come cheap.
I gave Andron 3 stars because I actually loved the few glimpses of the futuristic city. One of the best future cities I've seen. Too bad more of the movie wasn't filmed there using a different plot. Gleaming glass future cities would have been a much better theme.
Baldwin & Glover should have reversed their roles. This is not a racial statement. It's a personality observation. Baldwin would have done much better as the asinine Chancellor with Glover as the game Host. It was also in bad taste to show Glover owning a slave. He was clearly uncomfortable.
I agree the ridiculously oversized office the size of the French Palace with a single desk & CG screens & controls in the air was indeed absurd. It reminded me of the oversized, empty CG sets on the V 2009 TV reboot series.
There should have been more technology & a place for Baldwin's assistant to sit instead of her walking across a football stadium sized room in a rubber suit every time he wanted to have her perform a task. (like ST:Voyager's 7 of 9).
There was the total lack of logic behind the plot. 9 Billion killed in a catastrophe caused by this handful of corporations running the world. Using the games as a way to thin out the remaining 2 billion slave population they couldn't feed by encouraging them to bet their lives on which of the 10 contenders would win; & die if they picked a loser.
The lack of logic is where they claim they can't feed the 2 billion surviving slaves. They should have the slaves plowing & planting crops & orchards & process fish & food production instead of sitting around, filth encrusted, watching games. 2 billion slave laborers can do a lot to produce food & the privileged few elite would not need to kill off their labor force. These few elite leaders were clearly Not smart. It also made no sense why their slaves were filthy & living in squalor since the gleaming city of glass spread as far as you could see. So plenty of available room & technology for their slave laborers. Also, if they killed off all the slaves, these elite idiots would have to do their own work. Somehow, this population thinning reminds me of the Georgia guide stone. NWO
Then we are stuck watching these actors in their young 20's, who have no memories of who & what they are; wandering around this nasty abandoned power plant, doing stupid things & getting picked off; one by one by trick walls & glowing eyed robots. Victims too stupid to stick together or fashion weapons & too stupid to not leave any weapons lying around. The females (except 2) stand there looking stupid while the guys are pounded trying to bare hand fight robots.
I wouldn't chastise the acting skills of this cast. They were young actors mostly in their early 20's. Even famous actors often started doing low budget flicks to pay the bills & get experience. Some of the older actors do the same. Remember Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns?
The problems on this film were a rotten writer and a rotten director who couldn't communicate with his cast. But they all had to praise him in order to get hired by others.
The best way to watch this is with your finger on the fast forward button. Go normal speed whenever you see Baldwin, Glover, the future world or the bald black female because she has the entire plot in her dialogue & acting. Also, go to normal speed whenever they are outside. Otherwise, just fast forward. The victims don't know who they are or what they are doing there, so you won't miss much.
I usually fast forward through any battles or fights on any movie. There is no value in watching mindless violence no matter how fancy the special effects may be. I have no desire to watch faces punched in. Also, how many laser, sword or gunshots do you have to see? They all look the same. It is boring. I would much rather see sci-fi, high tech & intelligent interaction & fresh new story lines like the film Oblivion with Tom Cruise & Morgan Freeman.
As I said, the futuristic city is the best part of this film. Have your fast forward ready for the rest as I described.
Worse than Bad
blee07444 June 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I saw this movie for free, and I still overpaid. Alec Baldwin is, once again, a ham sandwich on two legs. Add the insufferable Danny Glover and you would think things couldn't get worse. But wait....poor photography, choppy editing, poor acting and corny dialog all contribute to making this a giant stink-burger.
Alec and Danny
kosmasp18 December 2016
If you sometimes wonder how some really good actors do some very bad movies: just think about the fact that they need money too. So Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover (still not too old for ... like this) are in this and they may be a sort of remedy to watch for some. Especially Alec is always fun to watch. Even if it's obvious he has no clue why he's moving his hand in front of his face (virtual monitors and stuff that were put in later digitally).
Apart from the real actors doing their thing (while looking as confused as the viewer), the rest of the cast is trapped. Literally and metaphorically speaking. The movie has not begun and you stop caring for them. Forget all the twists and turns this throws at you, which will make you dizzy. If your head-shaking didn't bother you and you watch through, either the final twist before the credits or the one shortly after the credits start rolling will finally break your neck ...
Apart from the real actors doing their thing (while looking as confused as the viewer), the rest of the cast is trapped. Literally and metaphorically speaking. The movie has not begun and you stop caring for them. Forget all the twists and turns this throws at you, which will make you dizzy. If your head-shaking didn't bother you and you watch through, either the final twist before the credits or the one shortly after the credits start rolling will finally break your neck ...
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