Mech: Human Trials (2014) User Reviews (3)

Voice over and over and over...

[voyou-703-655350 · 4/10 · 13 January 2016]

Despite a classic and interesting plot, this film succumbs to mediocrity. That's because of the way it tells its story.

It all begins with an action scene that reasonably impresses, enough to make us stay for more. Then, immediately, it shift gears, downwards. The narrator starts narrating, and from now on everything will be exposition by voice over. Not peachy.

My rating would be 5, as in forgettable, if not for the additional sin of repeating a scene, complete and identical. Just in case we had forgotten it, in a 5 minutes long film. That rhetorical device was terribly ill-inspired, and could cause nothing but extra disappointment.

Watch it only if you love Sci-Fi action

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 20 April 2017]

The Canadian "Mech: Human Trials" is a six-minute live action short film from 2014 and this one here was made by Patrick Kalyn, who is an Emmy nominee and also worked as a visual effects artist on several Blockbusters such as James Cameron's "Avatar". So this one here is his most recent (of 4) effort as the man in charge of script and direction. The title sounds as if there were other (short) films to the Mech series, but apparently not. Or not yet. It is the story of a man who starts taking a drug to fix his bruised body and the drug makes him stronger, but negative consequences arise too and we see him searching for the ones who produced the drug at the very end. I must say the film gets a bit better the longer it starts going, but never becomes really good or convincing unfortunately. Especially early on, the part with the reasons why he started taking this drug at all felt especially weak to me. All in all, I would only recommend this little movie to those I mentioned in the title, those who love these two genres. Everybody else won't be missing much and I also think that if there will really be a sequel at some point which the ending somehow indicates, then I don't have a great deal of interest to check it out. Thumbs down from me.

good intentions

[Kirpianuscus · 24 December 2017]

A good idea. a decent story. and nothing more. because the film remains a sketch, interesting but without a credible end. a sketch. mixing Sci Fi pieces with a sort of ordinary ingredients from action films. result - a promise. who falls. like many others films, it has not a real subject. only a pretext about a dark future, chance to be stronger, a bad choice and the desire of revenge. and this is it.