Well I saw 9 today, and I'm sure a lot of you have seen the commercials. Weird doll like creatures, crazy mechanical ones, and some rock in the background all while the words "This ain't your little brothers film" or something like that. All looks interesting... but is it?

Some of you should know the plot simply from the commercials by now: Robots have killed off the human race, and the 9 creations of one scientist are all that's left. Now, in most movies you'd expect some sort of plot twist. But that isn't the case here. Everything is very straight forward and bare bones. The plot you're given from the beginning is the same until the end, and that's a downer because I was expecting more from the looks they had for the character design and the world itself.

Now usually I don't mind simple plots so long as the characters are engaging, but sadly 9 fails here too. Most of them you don't develop any feelings for, and a couple in particular you actually hate, wondering why 9 (the character) defends them. Maybe he's just dumb, or maybe he's supposed to be the super understanding fellow, but they never get the reasoning across.

As far as the visuals of the film, they're interesting, but besides the "Fellowship of the 9" everything looks very... unimagnitive. & really, 50% of the action is explosions.

So overall the film is okay, but it reeks of the well known phrase "Style over substance." There's so much focus on the visual quality that any story or personality is damn near ignored. If you've seen the commercials, just watch them again a few times and you will have seen the better parts of the movie.

1 and 1/2 out of four stars.