Howdy kids and welcome to Day 3 of Action Pack and this one
is a bit…silly and scantily clad but intriguing nonetheless. A timeline when machines have taken over
the Earth and humanity is forced to hide in vast underground chambers. So grab your wrist blasters, leap in the
catacombs and prepare for more obscure pop culture than your mind may
handle. This is Cleopatra 2525.
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| Tee hee! |
Spoilers are the
betrayers of humanity…
The year 2525 is a harsh reality in which humanity hides in
vast underground chambers stretching for miles. A complex of shafts and tunnels that was
created by the shaft builders in order to survive the Bailey menace and no I am
not talking about the drink. Our
heroines consist of: Hel, leader of the group and linked to a program known
only as Voice (Gina Torres of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Firefly, Angel, 24,
Serenity, Justice League Unlimited, Alias, Standoff, and Justice League: Crisis
on Two Earths) her headstrong, tough as nails subordinate Sarge (Victoria
Pratt of Mutant X, House of the Dead 2, Day Break, What Love Is, Brotherhood of
Blood, Moonlight and Cold Case) and lastly they encounter the last
member of their time, a cryogenically frozen exotic dancer known as Cleopatra (Jennifer
Sky of Xena: Warrior Princess, Trigger Happy, Shallow Hal, Fastlane, Charmed
and The Helix…Loaded). They
explain to Cleopatra that the world as she knew it has been gone for more than
525 years now and machines known by the resistance as Baileys rule the Earth
and sky.
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| It's not a weave and shut up already!! |
Now this is a typical post apocalyptic setting of the robot
holocaust and so on but with a bit of flair.
Humans have evolved, devolved and remained as well. Some of animal humanoid hybrids some have
become the equivalency of their caveman predecessors while most are your
typical species. The environment is a
bit harsh, water has to be purified over and over to the point it probably
tastes like Dutch lager.
Now we get to
the antagonists of this show of which give a decent level of consistency.
Baileys are large, heavy weaponized flying robots that attack humans on
sight. They are named after their
creator, Dr. George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart how could you???) who were originally
created to clean and correct the environment.
Formulating from pure logic it came clear to the Baileys that humanity
are nothing but despoilers and must be the cause of the Earth problems and
therefore must be exterminated. Betrayers are android enforcers that kidnap people, absorb
their memories, make a perfect copy of that person and then kill the original. You have an updated version of Terminators if
you will, with the added bonus they can morph massive energy cannons from their
hands, take an exorbitant amount of damage, a self repair unit and can fire
beams from their eyes. All in all a fun
bunch to play with…if you are a masochist.
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| You will be probed! |
Lastly we have our reoccurring villain Creegan, a brilliant and
psychotic scientist that has no morals or scruples to speak of. An unspoken vendetta against Voice that only
he and she know of and this puts the team in danger in my humble opinion. The fighting choreography is similar to both
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess so the fight fans may feel a bit slighted at
you can clearly make out that the combatants are not connecting with one
another. Oh well. It’s sci-fi, it’s silly and bit racy but all
in all it is entertaining to many.
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