There is worse than Age of Tomorrow from The Asylum, but with Age of Tomorrow still being pretty poor stuff that is not saying very much. Granted Kelly Hu looks great still and brings charming command to her role and Robert Piccardo also tries his best and is the most involved actor in the cast(this said this is another of quite a few cases where Piccardo's material is beneath him). The locations are cool and quite pretty and the space-suits compared to the rest of the production values are decent at least. Age of Tomorrow on the whole is a cheap looking movie however, the driving sequences look like little more than haphazardly edited stock footage, the entire movie looks gloomy, the editing is bacon-slicer like and the special effects are never great or even good, the best of them are merely okay but most of them are awful. The music is basically loud sluggish-in-tempo noise played constantly, in the more dramatic parts you really do wish that they toned it down a bit. The script rarely makes sense with exposition parts that are ham-fisted and explanatory ones that is largely suggestive of the writers having no idea what they were talking about and how to deliver it. Any snappy moments are anything but and everything else is completely emotionally flat. The story is a disaster in itself, it starts off reasonably amusing, but much of it is unintentionally with all the goofs and what stuff the movie throws at you, but this gets tiring very quickly, here we're talking about less than half-an-hour in. None of the subplots are interesting, the main plot was a good idea that was let down by a complete lack of tension or fun and the threat not being that threatening at all while the trying-to-find-daughter subplot is where the movie starts to slow down and when it slows down it does so painfully. Plus it ends on a very anti-climatic note. The movie is erratically paced, the action has no life and looks under-rehearsed, the direction shows little character or technical skill. With the cardboard and barely developed characters doing them no favours, with the exception of Hu and Piccardo, the acting is bad, some even looking and sounding like they were still trying to remember their lines which was laughable. Overall, for The Asylum Age of Tomorrow could have been worse but it is still poorly done and tiresome with a few things keeping it from being unwatchable. 3/10 Bethany Cox

AGE OF TOMORROW is another straight-to-video rip-off from The Asylum; the inspiration for this one is the Tom Cruise flick EDGE OF TOMORROW. Sadly, this film doesn't go for a time-jumping plot but instead presents a small cast of characters fighting back against an alien invasion. The good news is that this is fast paced and full of (admittedly bad) CGI effects, so it's a little better than the truly bottom-of-the-barrel Asylum-made movies. Humans on Earth battle invading aliens while a team of astronauts head to an alien planet to tackle the mothership itself. Kelly Hu, of X-MEN 2, stars.

May contain some midpoint plot spoilers, but I would never ever reveal this ending.

We find out from the general (Robert Picardo) that "the big one" is headed for the planet. Since Bruce Willis died the last time, this leaves loose cannon Capt. James Wheeler (Anthony Marks) who is a bad impersonation of Charlie Sheen impersonating Tom Cruise. Col. Mac (Mitchell Carpenter),a man who acts like Lou Diamond Phillips on a bad day, has his doubts and has no trouble talking about Capt. Wheeler when he is in the room. Wheeler demands his own team which he so originally calls "Rough Necks." The general explains "the gravity of the situation" that Asylum regular, Casper Van Dien is working on his own film and can't lead the attack.

As it turns out the meteor is actually an invading worm-holed space ship filled with predator looking creatures along with a big brain bug thing that I have no idea what it was. It also worm holes back to the alien home planet...out in the blue flora woods.

Meanwhile, War of the Worlds is happening on earth as their drones attack us. As in any Asylum film dad must unite with his family or in this case his daughter who was "not that hot." Dad (Lane Townsend) is a crackerjack LA fireman who wields an axe in a manner that would make Kane Hodder or Gunnar Hansen green with envy. It seems he can kill these drones with an axe while the military is helpless against them with dumb things like tanks and bazookas. The drones generally strike from a distance, unless you are holding an axe, then they come up close. Daughter Lindsey (Taylor Coliee) another poorly developed character, is trapped in a cubicle (welcome to the club.)

The dialogue wasn't great:

Opening line, dad on phone to ex-wife: "I didn't leave her by herself...The dog is with her."

Lindsey: "What are they?" Dad: "They're dead, because I'm coming to get you."

When I saw this Asylum film in Walmart for $9.96, I had to get it right away and watch it. The film previews for other Asylum films were impressive. They do make great previews. The gag reel was about 2 minutes and not worth watching.

Asylum film fans have one for the collection. Everyone else, you have been warned.

Parental Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Head decapitations, blood squirts.