Some things I liked some I did not.

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Mark Rosman's best movie is this highly guilty pleasure from the mid-nineties. True it's a pretty insubstantial horror film with crappy special effects & highly predictable story, but seriously how can you hate a film that features Q creating a murderous robot with the voice of the Shameless William H Macy? And the family that 'wins' it in a contest. This one has a few very quotable lines as well. It's MUCH better than the similarly-themed "Brainscan" at least. But one note: This movie goes better with alcohol Eye Candy: 2 extras are topless when evolver goes on a spy run in a locker room

I'm one of those guys who enjoys pretty much any movie, so I guess I don't count. There are some things that struck me as stupid, but what could they do? CDRs didn't exist at that time, so they had to fake it. Still, the fact that they stuck what amounts to a CD in a floppy drive and faked reading it. The effects were great for the time, and are still decent. Back to some technical errors. Now, it IS possible to boost a laser to the point where you can burn things, but the power of the laser goes down as the distance goes up. Which means that if you put one up against a magnifying glass or something, the magnifier would melt. Also, boosting the power of a laser would not change the color. But still, it was a more than enjoyable, in my humble opinion.

First I'd like to point that I don't consider this a sci-fi movie and therefore I won't judge it like sci-fi. This is more like a teen movie with a slight cyber twist. A distant reminder or titles like "War Games" (more sci-fi) and "Hackers" (more teen and harder to swallow for me as a IT professional). The plot is based on an idea similar to "War Games" - a machine that eventually turns bad, due to inappropriate/biased programming, but here we have also some teen movie elements like boys/girls locker room, teen relationships, etc. I want to point out the good cast of the movie. Cassidy Rae as Jamie Saunders was perfect. Also excellent and very convincing performance from the others. All in all a good and professionally made movie very entertaining and highly recommended if you like this kind of "cyber-teen" movies. I give it 10 out of 10.

Well, okay, I'm being harsh. This movie isn't total crap. In fact, though it is pretty lame for today's standards, it's entertaining on some levels. The story is predictable and offers no surprises. Kyle Baxter is a champion in the virtual reality game 'Evolver' and hereby wins a real-life Evolver robot. So Kyle and his friends can now chase it around the house while playing the shoot'n'survive game. But there's a glitch in Evolver's system, making it see enemies everywhere as he gets going on a killing spree. Kyle finds out that its initial program was used in an abandoned military project (you didn't see that one coming, did ya? Harharhar!).I can imaging a 10-year-old being extremely excited about the coolness of Evolver, but to me it looks like a Transformer-version of Johny 5 from SHORT CIRCUIT. Why EVOLVER got an R-rating is beyond me, 'cause there's almost no blood in it (and certainly no gore or nudity). In Belgium it got a 12-rating, just like it should be 'cause this is a horror/sci-fi-flick for kids. But it is kinda cool that every now and then Evolver upgrades himself to the next level. Though he looks like he's made out of plastic, he really is a tough little bastard. Throwing him in a pool, hitting him with blunt objects and even blowing him up don't seem to shut him down. Why didn't anyone call Optimus Prime to terminate it? The only real surprise this movie provided was when I read in the end-credits that William H. Macy performed the voice of Evolver. So you can imaging your friendly neighbor sounding much scarier than Evo. However, Mr. Macy did have some nice one-liners like "Delete this!" and "Bonus round!" before killing someone. Ethan Embry (as Kyle Baxter and rather young at the time he did EVOLVER) maybe isn't a top-notch actor but he injects a certain enthusiasm in his role and he did manage to show up in the surprisingly good horror-flick THEY (2002), giving a decent performance in it and showing us that he has grown as an actor.So, EVOLVER is that kinda movie from the mid-90's that's neither good or bad. Just average acting, average special effects and an okay-looking robot. We've seen it all before. Remember the shoot-out scenes from the virtual reality game in GHOST IN THE MACHINE? Well, EVOLVER's got 'em too, only not as good and less dynamic. One good thing might be that the movie never gets really boring, but don't expect any scary stuff either. I say EVOLVER is somewhere stuck between Pyun's ARCADE and Flynn's BRAINSCAN, though none of them are comparable movies for that matter. I was contemplating giving EVOLVER 4 out of 10 stars, but I feel generous and will therefore add one star extra for Mr. Macy doing the robo-voice.