From production company The Asylum comes “The Terminators”. Do not be fooled, this has nothing to do with the popular “Terminator” franchise. Like “Transmorphers” and “Snakes On A Train”, The Asylum loves to dupe people with its ‘mockbusters’. As disappointing as some of the later real “Terminator” films are, they are still infinitely better than this abomination.

A small group of humans desperately tries to find a way to disable the robots that have taken control of the Earth. The metallic foes are seemingly unstoppable with their great strength and endurance. Can humanity be saved from total annihilation by its own creation?

The acting in this movie is as bad as it is practically every film I’ve seen from The Asylum. I didn’t care about any of the characters or what any of their motivations were. All the cyborgs are played by the same guy. He clearly was chosen because he looks a tiny bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger from the proper “Terminator” films. You really have to squint while standing a couple of dozen feet from your screen. The special effects are absolutely awful so when we finally see one of the robots in its endoskeleton form, it looks atrocious. It’s one of the worst robots I’ve seen in a movie. Even the effects from the original “Terminator” all the way back from 1984 look twice as convincing as anything in this 2009 knock-off.

Cheap special effects, a lousy plot, boring characters and bad action sequences all plague this disastrous flick. I feel genuinely sorry for anybody that was fooled into thinking this had any connection with the real “Terminator” franchise. They would have got home and been devastated by how they had just wasted some money on a film this bad. Nobody here either in front of the camera or behind the camera has done a job worthy of any praise whatsoever. Clearly, no effort went into this project.