''A.P.E.X'' is a 1994

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directed by Phillip J. Roth and starring Richard Keats, Mitchell Cox, Lisa Ann Russell, and Marcus Aurelius. The plot concerns a group of scientists who explore the past using robotic probes known as the A.P.E.X or "Advanced Prototype Exploration units".

Plot

In 2073, Nicholas Sinclair is a scientist on a time travel project. An accident introduces in 1973 a deadly virus that activates the project's automatic countermeasures. Attack robots are sent to the past in an effort to eliminate the virus carriers. They fail. Sinclair returns to 2073 to find the

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in ruins, ravaged by both the virus and the robots still in countermeasure action. Sinclair returns to the project lab that is now in ruins in order to prevent the original cause of the accident.

Cast

* Richard Keats as Nicholas Sinclair * Mitchell Cox as Shepherd * Lisa Ann Russell as Natasha Sinclair * Marcus Aurelius as Taylor * Adam Lawson as Rasheed * David Jean Thomas as Dr. Elgin * Brian Richard Peck as Desert Rat * Anna B. Choi as Mishima * Kristin Norton as Johnson * Jay Irwin as Gunney * Robert Tossberg as 1973 Father * Kathleen Randazzo as 1973 Mother (as Kathy Lambert) * Kareem H. Captan as Joey * Merle Nicks as Old Man * Natasha Roth as Desert Child

Accolades

''A.P.E.X'' was nominated for Best Film in the International Fantasy Film Award, at the 1994

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international film festival in

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References

External links

Film review at Badmovies.org
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