In the year 2037 Beverly Hills is part of a quarantine area. An earthquake occurred and there were three "future reactors" in the area which contaminated the land. The area has been taken over by drug lords and various homeless people because everyone wants to live in a poison zone when the beaches are all pristine. The story centers on Hammond (Michael Jai White) a police officer who operates outside of the box. He is assigned an android cop Andi (Randy Wayne) as a partner. Then the film gets weird, It seems the mayor's daughter (Larissa Vereza) is in a coma...her body anyway. Her consciousness is located inside an android that looks like her and is inside the quarantined area, one that has 14 drug lords and she doesn't know she is an android. Our team's job is to go get her and bring her back in the Asylum production of Robo Cop Escapes from LA.

Now that is not it for the major twists, they do make it weirder with a few more.

The film is supposed to be an action comedy with CG flames and guns that never need reloading. The dialog didn't make it.The humor was flat. Comparing an android to a soda machine was supposed to get a laugh. Surely they could have come up with something better than that. The action consisted mostly of bad gun play. I was bored. Kids might like it.

Parental Guide: No sex, nudity, or F-bombs that I can recall.

Android Cop is an excellent film which I really enjoyed watching. This film is an action packed thriller which has some fight scenes as well but is mainly about dealing with non human criminals in a forbidden city plagued with a disease. This film was a tiny but scary, but more of a mysterious action packed thriller and that is what makes it completely different to the film Robocop. The film has some excellent acting by Michael Jai White as Hammond, Kadeem Hardison as Sgt Jones, Randy Wayne as Android Cop, Charles S. Dutton as Mayor Jacobs, Larissa Vereza as Helen Jacobs and Delpaneaux Wills as Officer Williams. Ignore the negative reviews, this definitely is an excellent film.

If you're familiar at all with The Asylum, you pretty much already know what you're in for. That said, for The Asylum, this isn't bad. Don't mistake that for "good," though. But you could do worse.

The effects could be better, but they aren't completely terrible. The biggest letdown of the film is the under-utilization of Michael Jai White's martial arts skills. It's in there, but not as much as it could or should have been. Too many camera cuts.

This is a low budget film. It rides the coat tails of Robocop, and has the slight essence of the TV show Almost Human - without being a rehash of either. So don't expect either. Pleasantly surprising coming from The Asylum. Definitely one of their better films.