I really liked the first "Transmorphers" from The Asylum. I mean in spite of being a total rip off of The Terminator, Robotech, and the Transformers, it actually excelled at being something more than a carbon copy. That was thanks to the ace direction from Leigh Scott, one of the Asylum's heavy hitters. Now comes "Fall of Man," a prequel to the first movie now under the direction of Scott Wheeler another Asylum heavy hitter whose work has been mostly relegated to special effects with varied success over the years. This installment sets down in modern day America where important people are being assassinated by an unknown force. Sadly the force that brings this movie down to the ground is its sheer ignorance of what entertainment is supposed to be.

There's an instance where Wheeler could have taken advantage by featuring a cell phone turning in to an arachnid robot, but the battle is so brief and abrupt all fun is sucked out before we could brace ourselves. Wheeler doesn't have the same knack for visual style as the original director Leigh Scott did and the writers certainly aren't keen to providing a steady even pace. Sometimes the movie flows so quickly that it's hard to keep up, while other times it's as dull as day old bread with more questions posed toward us than answers. Seriously, why not camouflage as a missile rather than a satellite dish? And what purpose would it have served to kill a senile old lady in the first place? And why the sudden appearance of Autobots as villains? It's just disappointing after watching the first movie that had such a better atmosphere of doom than this one did.