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The Machine

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5.9/10 • 805

2013-04-251h 32m

Science FictionThriller

They Rise. We Fall.

Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.

Directors
Caradog W. James
Writters
Caradog W. James
Editors
Caradog W. James, Matt Platts-Mills

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Caity Lotz

    Caity Lotz

    Ava

  2. Toby Stephens

    Toby Stephens

    Vincent McCarthy

  3. Denis Lawson

    Denis Lawson

    Thomson

  4. Sam Hazeldine

    Sam Hazeldine

    James

  5. Pooneh Hajimohammadi

    Pooneh Hajimohammadi

    Suri

  6. Jonathan Byrne

    Jonathan Byrne

    Tim

  7. Jade Croot

    Jade Croot

    Mary

  8. John-Paul Macleod

    John-Paul Macleod

    Paul Dawson (as John Paul Macleod)

  9. Helen Griffin

    Helen Griffin

    Paul Dawson's Mother

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Reno

Dec 24, 2016

5/10

Creating an artificial intelligence, but its intelligence beyond expected's the issue. Maybe the films about artificial intelligence that were made in the last 5 years might outnumber to those were made before that for centuries. Especially there are lots of B movies on this theme and some of them surpassed the film critics and the film fanatics' expectations. Here is another one, but this is a British film. Though one thing I don't understand is, in all these films they make the same mistakes. I mean the film characters recognising the AI as one of us which leads to a major disaster. Sets in the future, when the Chinese aggression towards the Taiwan made the west, especially Britain to counteract them in the region, they decide to build a most advanced AI. But when the scientist creates beyond what the military needed, the conflict of interest surface among them. From this, who gains what, and how the story ends comes in the latter part. Initially I liked it, but not the progression. It led nowhere, but the same crumble and a conflict between the man and the machine. I'm not saying the film was bad, but I blame the overcrowded films on this theme. The filmmakers have to start to think a different kind of storyline. Going advance like what AIs can do in the field than the initiation programmes which is too old for now and onwards. So that's where I disliked it, but not hated it. I hope you enjoyed it better than me or would do if you yet to try. 5/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$1,500,000.00
Revenue
$314,131.00
Keywords
androidartificial intelligence (a.i.)experimentdystopiamilitary