Robot overlords is a story about the Earth which is aggressed by the robots from the other planets. To survive, the human has to cover in their own houses or risk their lives to be able to stay alive. A gang of children detected how to make electric shock to disable the tracking mechanisms to be able to hide around without being discovered. Incidentally, this prank became the hope for the fighting of human to overthrow the enemy from the strange planets.
It's brisk enough, and Wright's fondness for types sustains it: there are well-judged contributions from Ben Kingsley as a snippy collaborator, and Tamer Hassan as the guvnor of a pub in permanent lockdown.
The pic's general good humor - plus the tony adult presence of Gillian Anderson and Ben Kingsley - compensates to some degree for its cheapjack construction, but not enough to extend its appeal far beyond pre-teens in Blighty.
Director Jon Wright, who directed the rambunctious monster-movie Grabbers, makes the most of his limited resources, imbuing the action with an oddly endearing sense of string-and-glue DIY youthfulness.
Robot Overlords is an engaging action romp that moves at a nice pace but eventually gets rather let down by effects efforts that are compromised by the film's low-budget origins.
