Tears of Steel (2012)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Simply A Masterpiece

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

A reasonable story, technology and love story, a lot of holes but a film giving to each viewer small part from what he deserves/expect. and that saves a short film with few ambitions to impress for special effects , using not the most credible story . but the last could be useful . as a kind of spice. robots, fights, resistence and the desire to fix an error from past. and nothing more.

This is the kind of short film students make who really have very little experience of film making or directing... anyth8ng good that is. And what a waste as the production values are obviously way and above average. But this is THE CLAS#IC mistake of new film makers. The script and story suck. It's all about 'hey look at us and how clever we are with effects. Doesn't it look great', meanwhile there's no real story and at 10 mins this in unforgivable. It's also not well directed with hardly a decent camera shot or imaginative framing in the whole piece. I've no idea who these people are but ultimately this piece is a waste of time nd money. Maybe the computer designers will get a job but this does nothing for anyone else who gave up their time. And boy there were a ton of people who worked on this. However this project serves as THE PERFECT example to film students on not what to do with a year of your time. Instead concentrate on a good script, a great story and find a handful of great actors and film something in a basement on a mobile phone and trust me it will be infinitely better time spent than this. What a waste,

"Tears of Steel" is a 12-minute short film from 3 years ago and this was produced by the Dutch production company Blender Foundation. they made quite some waves with their animated short film work and here they step into a completely new genre: live action. Sadly, I must say it was not a successful transition. The inclusion of Derek de Lint, one of the Netherlands' most known actors, is a nice one, but it cannot make up for this being a really generic uninteresting science fiction movie. it may be true that this is not my favorite genre, but i still have seen many films from it and I feel there is nothing new in "Tears of Steel", nothing that hasn't been done before and, most of the time, at least as good or even better. The film defines itself a bit through its special effects, which is never a good thing. The reason may be that writer and director Ian Hubert is a longtime special effects artist. His work here really could have needed a better plot and story, including better character evaluation. Not recommended.

I'm a big Blender user myself, have been into it for years and have always followed the movie projects from the Blender Foundation... Its previous one Sintel was an amazing piece of work as it not only demonstrated the capabilities of the software but was also an enjoyable and moving short film.Tears of Steel, instead of being a 100% 3D project instead became the first live action film by the Blender Foundation. Which made perfect sense as over the past year a lot of features have been added to the software to assist in that area... a new rendering engine to help with photo realism, camera tracking... color balancing etc etc... And, as an exercise to demonstrate those new features and what they are capable of the film did its job, the special effects are for the most part very impressive, aside from some poor 'green screen' moments they made a realistic environment to set the film.However, this is where my praise ends... as an actual short film, it falls flat on its face. The script is hammy, a little confusing and in some case, flat out dumb... 'Admit you don't like my robot hand!' ... really? It left me feeling quite let down after the hype and build up and my hope, is that next year they produce something that works as a tech demo AND a film at the same time. Not one or the other.