This 'Armed Response' to rogue AI quickly becomes ridiculous
An abandoned high-tech prison sets the stage â€" as well as the limited shooting budget â€" for “Armed Response,†a far-fetched supernatural revenge techno-thriller starring Wesley Snipes, Dave Annable and Anne Heche, and produced by KISS founder Gene Simmons and WWE Studios. If those credits sound like a wacky hodgepodge, here’s the plot: A team of special forces ops who fought in Afghanistan reconvenes in a secluded U.S. military compound called the Temple, which was intended as a place to interrogate high-level prisoners until its malfunctioning AI took on a deadly life of its own.
Although there is some entertainment value in seeing Snipes, Annable (who also played a war vet on the TV series “Brothers and Sistersâ€), Heche and WWE star Seth Rollins in full tactical gear hunting for the invisible perpetrator b ehind a vicious bloodbath that has eradicated a squad of their predecessors, that value proves fleeting.
Unable to employ an effective chokehold on the mounting tension, actor-director John Stockwell, whose more satisfying credits include 2001’s “Crazy/Beautiful†and the 2000 TV movie “Cheaters,†fails to prevent Matt Savelloni’s increasingly ridiculous script from droning on lifelessly.
By the time one of the gun-toting members of Team Snipes growls “Let’s finish this!†viewers would be hard-pressed to disagree.
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‘Armed Response’
Rating: R for strong violence, some grisly images and language
Running time: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Playing: Laemmle NoHo, North Hollywood. Also on VOD.
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