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Transmorphers: Fall of Man
Film poster
Directed byScott Wheeler
Written byShane Van Dyke
Produced byDavid Michael Latt
David Rimawi
Paul Bales
StarringBruce Boxleitner
Jennifer Rubin
Shane Van Dyke
Russ Kingston
Alana DiMaria
Chad Vigil
CinematographyMark Atkins
Distributed byThe Asylum
Release date
  • June 30, 2009 (2009-06-30)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Transmorphers: Fall of Man (previously known as Transmorphers 2) is a 2009 direct-to-DVD science fiction film produced by the American film studio The Asylum. It is a prequel to the 2007 film Transmorphers.

As the title suggests, this film is a mockbuster of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The plot, however, borrows from the 2007 Transformers film, Terminator Salvation, and Maximum Overdrive. Unlike Transformers, the film was released directly to DVD with an R-rating in the United States and a 15 rating in the United Kingdom.

Plot

Taking place three hundred years prior to the events of the first film, the narrator describes how the government knew what was happening. A woman is seen driving recklessly in California while arguing over her cell phone. Police officer Ryan Hadley (Bruce Boxleitner) pulls her over and gives her a warning. The man calls her back, but she tells him off and throws the phone down; the phone then transmorphs into a robotic spider and kills her.

At Edwards Air Force Base, a NSA officer informs her superior about intercepting a signal. In Los Angeles Jo Summers is shocked to read in the newspaper about of the death of the woman from the car. In the Kern County Morgue, the police are baffled by the wound that killed the driver. Madison arrives home to discover her television is out. A repairman is called to fix the television. It ends up his name is Jake and he is an old friend of Madison who hasn't seen her since the war. Jake is shocked when the satellite dish transmorphs into a robot. He runs inside to warn Madison, but when he goes back the robot is gone. Summers arrives to investigate the death of the driver, but the NSA show up and asks her to go with them. She advises Ryan to find the driver's missing phone.

A man is driving an SUV when his GPS gives him a five seconds warning to exit the vehicle. He is shot in the forehead with a laser and the body is dumped, the SUV driving off by itself. Ryan meets with Madison and hears her story. He takes them in his car to look for the cell phone, but he is called to the scene of the SUV driver's body. A young boy tells Ryan that the empty car drove away. Ryan picks up the first driver's cellular phone from the coroner's office. He then intercepts the SUV, which tries to ram him. When Ryan pulls the SUV over, they are jumped by the satellite robot. They drive away, but are chased by the SUV, who also transmorphs into a robot.

The machines quickly seize control of the Earth. After surviving an assault an avoiding the destruction, the small group learn that aliens are changing the water and the atmosphere to fit their physiology. They hear about this from a soldier who claims that this information came from Russia, where they captured and tortured one of the machines. They manage to salvage explosives and destroy one of the terraforming devices. This has a negative effect, though: the release of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere, to which the machines have adapted, and what is left of mankind takes refuge underground.

Cast

Production

Transmorphers: Fall of Man was released June 30, 2009 (less than a week after the premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen).[1]

Scott Wheeler directs the film, replacing Transmorphers director Leigh Scott, and the film was also The Asylum's first film to be released on Blu-ray disc.[2]

Reception

Transmorphers: Fall of Man was met with a mixed critical reaction, and a considerably favorable one to its predecessor. Felix Vasquez Jr. of Cinema Crazed, who gave the original Transmorphers a positive review,[3] said, "There are moments when Transmorphers 2 rises to the occasion and injects a sense of urgency to the proceedings, but it takes too long for anything to happen. It's one long stretch of boring with a few hits of excitement, but the cons drastically affect the pros."[4]

Continuity

Transmorphers: Fall of Man takes place in the present day, approximately 300 years before Transmorphers.

  • In the first half of the film, the antagonist is a single Machine with the ability to "transmorph" into a satellite dish, a human-sized "attack droid" and an SUV. Its appearance is similar to a typical Transformers action figure. The robots in the later invasion of Earth look more like the machines from the earlier film.
  • Fall of Man reveals that the aliens did not invade immediately. They found the planet when one of their vessels crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. The technology salvaged from the robot wreckage provided the basis for all modern technology (cellphones, internet, etc.). This is similar to the plot of Transformers; where our modern technology is based on studying Megatron, who similarly crashed on Earth.
  • In Transmorphers, the human Resistance discover the Machines are cybernetic life-forms in the final battle.
  • In the final moments of the film, Jack is heard recording a message for a growing Resistance. This same Resistance is still present in Transmorphers.

Errors

Transmorphers: Fall of Man has a number of continuity errors.

  • In the title sequence of the preceding film, the narrator describes how humanity first made contact with the robots. He says that humanity sent a message of peace through space which the Machines detected, but they only saw it as an opportunity to exterminate the humans. In Fall of Man, it is revealed that the Machines have already been on Earth since the Roswell UFO incident of 1947. A lone Transmorpher sends the coordinates of Earth to its kind to begin the invasion in present day.
  • In Transmorphers, the narrator states that the world is in eternal night because the Machines made it that way to serve their biological needs from their own planet. In Fall of Man, this is not the case, and that state of the Earth is the work of humans after they destroy one of the Transmorphers' terraformers, which releases radioactive material into the Earth's atmosphere.

See also

References

  1. ^ The Asylum - Transmorphers: Fall of Man
  2. ^ High Def Digest - Asylum Jumps into Blu with Transmorphers Prequel
  3. ^ Transmorphers review by Felix Vasquez Jr, Cinema Crazed, June 25, 2007
  4. ^ Transmorphers: Fall of Man review by Felix Vasquez Jr, Cinema Crazed, July 3, 2009

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