Monday, October 20, 2014

REVIEW - Automata

"Different Strokes" neatly sums up my view of this movie. More accurately, it sums up the views of other commentators on this mish-mash of Blade Runner, I Robot, and every other Robots-Go-Wild-and-Take-Over-The-World sci-fi story in between.

Admittedly, there are those Asimov fans who tend to like virtually anything based on the great One's writings. Then there are the "scientists" who like to debate the propensity of machines to evolve.

This is a low-budget attempt - certainly lower budget than Blade Runner or I Robot. It's Bulgarian-made - albeit starring a decidedly unglamorous Antonio Banderas as an Insurance agent investigating robots that may have been tampered with, but set in a similarly post-apocalyptic landscape that turns out to be more conducive to robot existence than human.

Without giving away any more of the rather obvious plot, I'll just consign this to the Would-a/Could-a pile.

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