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| Directed by | Michael Su |
| Starring | Michael Paré Sarah Lieving Anthony Jensen Paul Logan Jhey Castles |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
2025 Armageddon is a 2022 American science-fiction monster film directed by Michael Su and produced by The Asylum. Released in celebration of The Asylum's 25th anniversary, it is a crossover film featuring monsters from various other films by the studio. [2]
In 2006, twin sisters Madolyn and Quinn view Snakes on a Train , which was mistakenly purchased by their grandmother, who believed it was Snakes on a Plane . The sisters bond over the film and develop a love of The Asylum's movies.
Over the next two decades, Madolyn becomes a commander in the United States Navy while Quinn joins NASA, and the sisters become estranged. Madolyn's ship is sunken by a giant piranha, [a] leaving her the only survivor; she later comes upon a city being attacked by a pair of giant robots [b] and manages to take control of one. Quinn, meanwhile, discovers the destruction of the International Space Station by a rogue asteroid and informs their father Thomas, a Cabinet official. As they investigate these incidents, strange drones are seen in multiple cities scanning areas with lasers; Washington D.C. is then attacked by a giant crocodile. [c] By the time the crocodile disappears, much of the government has been killed in the chaos, resulting in Thomas being sworn in as President.
An attack on a subway train in Tokyo by a giant snake leads Madolyn and Quinn to realize that the creatures are imitating those featured in movies by The Asylum, a theory borne out by the appearance of giant sharks [d] near the Eastern Seaboard. Meanwhile, FCC investigation uncovers suspicious activity around multiple Asylum films on video streaming services, in which the films have been streamed for abnormally long amounts of time.
It is discovered that the creatures are being sent by a hostile alien race who have misinterpreted Asylum films as depicting real-life mythology and are using facsimiles of the creatures as weapons for an invasion of Earth. The drones 3D print the creatures to deploy them; however, because the aliens' home planet is only receiving an extremely weak signal to stream the movies, their facsimiles are low-resolution and fall apart shortly after creation. Deducing that the creatures can be fought using tactics similarly copied from the original films, Thomas has the military lure the Mega Shark into battle with a five-headed shark [e] that was sent for another attack. From this, the aliens realize that humanity has discovered their strategy and begin the next phase of their invasion by sending a ship to land on Earth.
Quinn and a military unit trace the location of a damaged drone, but the unit falls into a trap where some of the soldiers are brainwashed by the aliens using lights launched from their hands; Quinn evades capture and secretly boards the ship. The alien mothership's location in the ocean is determined, and multiple submarines refitted as Mecha Sharks [f] are deployed to attack it. Madolyn reconstructs the Armada Suit she acquired earlier and joins the battle piloting it; the aliens respond by sending a hybrid of many creatures fused together. She defeats the hybrid, prompting the aliens to summon a sharknado [g] to protect the ship. While she battles the sharknado, the brainwashed soldiers return to the bunker where Thomas is sheltering, intent on converting the President to advance the invasion. A soldier who avoided conversion alerts Thomas to the fact that those who fall victim to the brainwashing are transformed into members of the alien species and can brainwash new victims; Thomas attempts to escape while protecting the others sheltering at the bunker, but is captured and converted.
Madolyn's Armada Suit is damaged beyond repair despite destroying the sharknado in the process. Quinn is discovered by the aliens and nearly converted, but she uses their weakness to soundwaves to slip away on a landing ship. During her escape, she sabotages the control system for the drones; as the mothership attempts to leave Earth through a wormhole, many creatures are generated at random, and a giant octopus [h] attacks it. Quinn's lander happens to crash near Madolyn's location and the sisters reunite, but they are confronted by the brainwashed former humans led by Thomas. However, Thomas retains some of his humanity, and leads those following him away instead of having his daughters transformed. Madolyn and Quinn, overcoming their estrangement, realize that their battle has only just begun.
The magazine Paste described the premise as "delightfully meta", praising The Asylum's audacity for creating "a world where their own films are widely beloved blockbusters". [3] The film has been described as "the Avengers: Endgame of Asylum movies". [4] Despite this, the film itself has been criticized. The website Voices From the Balcony gave the film 1.5 stars, saying that the special effects left something to be desired, and describing the CGI of one scene in particular as "actually embarrassing". They also criticized the shortness of the scenes featuring monsters and lack of major monster battles, as well as the dialogue and "weak drama". [5] The website Film Blitz said that the film was "a chore to sit through", saying that while the premise had potential, the execution was poor. [6]
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