This film is a thing of beauty. There is not much new to the AI genre, but when i'm left with gratifying philosophical musings well after watching a move, i would consider it a successful piece of art.
When the robot said, who made you? You don't know, you just appeared. Just like us.
The life concept is a brilliant one.
Great film.
Because most of the acting was crap and the pacing was crap too. The only thing that kept me from falling asleep was how interesting the ideas were and how appropriately strange and noncommunicative the robots were. If not for the great ideas about how "out there" a new robotic life form would seem, I would've given this a 6/10 instead of a 7.
shareI agree with the previous poster that the acting was crap, especially Banderas sucked... or maybe it was also that his character was totally stupid.
But overall, I liked this movie a lot! I don't consider it a sci-fi masterpiece, but it's still hundred times better than 'Edge of Tomorrow' for example! And yeah, the movie was ripping off 'Blade Runner' in the beginning, but I totally didn't mind it.
Now, see, I can't agree with you there: exposition makes a movie for me far more than pure philosophy does, and EoT was two leagues above Automata in terms of exposition - I gave it an 8/10. It was actually very refreshing - I hadn't seen any Sci-Fi that good since 2012 or so.
shareAgree completely - EoT is one of the best Sci-Fi/Action flicks of recent times. This movie isn't in the same category, really, so you can't compare them directly. However both for entertainment value and "depth", EoT wins out.
A more valid comparison would be to compare Automata to Predestined - another recent foreign Sci-Fi film with a relatively low budget and based on thoughtful sci-fi rather than an action film. Predestined blows this out of the water. It has more interesting characters, a far better story line, and none of the cheap gimmicks of this film. It hits all the notes with precision like a well practised symphony, while Automata comes off as a poorly orchestrated cacophony.
If you mean Predestination (2014), then thanks for confirming it was good inspiration to add it to my watchlist. :) Having not seen that one yet, the closest comparison I would've made was with The Machine (2013), which pretty much covers the same theme and is only slightly better.
shareYeah, that's what I meant :)
Didn't mean to suggest that they were comparable plot-wise, either. They're not. At all. I was only comparing the similarities of date of release/budget/genre. Predestination - as the name hints - deals with time travel. It does not involve a single robot.
Agree on "The Machine", except that one probably annoyed me even more due to me having a military background, and the soldiers in that film acting like they somehow failed out of the boy scouts.
It was ok at best. It did have some shining moments, but those moments don't make up for its very serious flaws.
It had huge parts that dragged on with nothing really happening, typical 1 denominational bad guys, and desert yes desert. In this (near futuristic) post apocalyptic world with so many interesting things we could have seen, we find our self's stuck in the desert for pretty much the second of the film.
Also, I find it very hard to believe that a majority of people would want to try and have sex with what looks like a washing machine with extremities. I mean "dutch wives" have been around for a while, and your telling me that slapping a wig on a Whirlpool with legs is "good enough" for people of the future!? Sorry I just don't buy it. LOL
Stephen Holden of The New York Times said: "There are interesting ideas here, but they are swallowed up in dull, poorly choreographed shootouts and other action nonsense."
And yet people pay prostitutes for the exact same.
What is the difference.
Both have no real human interrelationship feelings.
its because the trailer is kinda of misleading. the trailer makes the movie seemed like a robot conspiracy movie. while in the actual it was more about existence and human behaviour. the trailer should have the same tone as HER.
i was only looking at the 1st trailer
I gave it a 9 if that's any consolation. And I'm usually a pretty low scorer.
I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe
One of the best new faces of Banderas. It is clear, that the bad guys were just following orders, after a kind of a conspiracy coming from "up there". Somebody wanted to hide some secrets about this first unit wihtout limit, some classified information. The bad guys were thinking, that Banderas wanted to destroy humanity, at least.
I hope this movie gets second part, but sadly he is not playing the role of a hard guy. Difficult to see the revenge of the dead of Bob..
Great Movie! Recommend it 100%!! Ratings should get upper soon!
I was ASTOUNDED by this film. Could not stop watching because I did not know what was coming next. I couldn't believe it I HAD to keep watching! The end was not what I was expecting but it leaves with what happens next what did the exobot mean etc. Love it because it wasn't everyone riding into the sunset with a happy ending. Especially when we are dealing with the future of AI and the human civilization We will have to struggle for our humanity against a greater intelligence and who is going to be the winner?
share8 for me.
Oscar
Hablo mejor español :)
Somewhat boring. Tried to be sophisticated, but fairly sophomoric. The society itself is too inconsistent. The characters were bland.
shareThe bland pursuers ruined it. Starting with the cop.
Calling them one dimensional would be already a praise.
The rest was decent to good.
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Lincoln Lee: I lost a partner.
Peter Bishop: I lost a universe!