Dear GOD! What an utter dumpster fire of a movie. I could review the whole thing but let's just do the first 5 minutes. Brand new camelback backpack in a decimated apocalyptic world, Check. M-4 rifles with magazines that hold bullets yet fire lasers, Check. "Martial arts" moves that look like the Step Brothers doing "Karate in the garage", check! Binary background graphics, check. Now on to the acting. The acting in this reminds me of when I went to my son's 2nd grade play. Basically, someone had a bit of money they wanted to waste, found an abandoned and overgrown warehouse, and a few "actors" willing to work for screen time and lunch, and said F it, let's make a movie. Throw in some black lick effects, neon tubing for that incredible futuristic look, and BOOM, you've got yourself a modern masterpiece of UCKERY! (Leave off that F for the censors".

Avoid this at all costs! Whatever the cost! AVOID IT!

Needless to say that I had never even heard about the 2023 sci-fi movie "Binary Samurai" prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2024. And with it being a movie that I had never heard about, much less actually watched, of course I opted to sit down and watch it.

Sure, I have to admit that I harbored zero expectations to the movie, given the title and the premise of the synopsis. But still, I opted to watch what writers Sean-Michael Argo and Aaron Kondziela had to offer. And the staggering 3.0 rating on IMDb, while I sat down to watch the movie, didn't exatly raise any hopes for the movie either.

And here I was thinking Samurai were Japanese people. Well, not in "Binary Samurai" they aren't...

Of course I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. Usually I am actually fond of watching movies with unfamiliar talents and faces on the screen, but I have to say that movies that are starring the same guy who wrote and directed the movie, well that just leaves a rancid taste in my mouth.

"Binary Samurai" is a low budget movie, no doubt about it. But writer and director Sean-Michael Argo seemed to have put quite some effort into the movie, attempting to make it look like more than just your average low budget homemade sci-fi action. But it didn't necessarily make it a good movie though, but points awarded for trying.

I found this movie to be a struggle to sit through, and it is not a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time. Nor is it a movie that I would recommend you to waste your time, money or effort on.

My rating of "Binary Samurai" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.