Too many loose ends ... here's my list of top 10

1. Communication was lost, but not until she arrived at the training site.

2. It was a training site. Perhaps it was normal for there not to be a Global Connection. Regardless, her Local Connection did concern her, as she later told the Captain.

3. Near the end the machine told her that they initiated and ordered the unit to the grounds for training.

4. Her objective was to monitor the machines, not investigate the limited connection and when it become aware that things were worse than expected, it was too late. She was part of the team that built the robots, remember?

5. Use your imagination.

6. Nothing went wrong. Their programming was to learn warfare from humans. They learned all they could from the dummies so they moved on to live humans. However, as stated in the movie, the humans were not performing well enough in the simulations... therefore they used live ammo and #3.

7. They did not want to simply kill humans, instead they wanted to study their combat behaviors. That is why they replicated their tactics the next day. Did you not listen to the dialogue?

8. See #7

9. It was said in the movie that the machines were unsure if Mills was one of them. Again, she was one of their creators.

10. She did not set up that gun. She crawled over to the soldier's body. It was his gun. Remember the scene on the transport ship where she demonstrated her ability to access the guns remotely?

I really think you missed most of the movie.

1 & 2 - Communication wasn't lost, if so, how would the facility be able to send a request asking for a group of trainees to come to the island for a training exercise. And if they could transmit but not receive messages, it could have just been a receiver malfunction. There was no cause for alarm at that point.

3- The robots did, they revealed their plan near the end of the movie, they ran out of dummies and live people from the facility to train themselves so they needed more cannon fodder with military experience that could present somewhat of a challenge to improve their skills as killing machines.

4- Mills didn't know there was something "wrong" with the robots, she was suspicious of their behavior and since she was the scientist who programmed them, her curiosity naturally got the best of her.

5- I'll agree with you on that one, I did find it a bit odd how they were able to just disappear without a sound.

6- Nothing went wrong, they didn't turn against humans. They were programmed to keep learning in order to improve themselves and since they were incapable of learning from dummies and opponents who felt they weren't in any real danger, they decided to take it to the next level by using lethal force providing more incentive for the soldiers to perform as if their lives depended on it.

7- Again, it was explained. They were playing with the soldiers in order to study their behavior in a crisis situation. They can't learn anything about human behavior if they just wipe 'em out.

8- They were learning human weaknesses I suppose. If the military was up against an extra-terrestrial force they knew little about, wouldn't they be dissecting the enemy to find weaknesses they could exploit? It was perfectly normal for the robots to be doing the same.

9- It was hinted that they were keeping Mills alive because they didn't know if she was one of them or not (she was capable of overriding their commands to a certain extent). Perhaps the robot thought Bukes was holding Mills as leverage against them like a hostage. So engaging Bukes at that time could have endangered Mills.

10- At the beginning of the movie, inside the dropship before they arrive at the facility, it was shown that Mills could remotely access the gun that Robinson was using by disengaging the firing mechanism and telling him she could also fire the gun from where she was sitting. All she did was prop the gun up on it's bipod and waited for the robot to get in the right position so she could fire the gun remotely. Nothing too physically demanding there, even for an injured person.

I guess your brain could be described as having loose ends because, as you can see, most of your gripes were explained throughout the movie, but you clearly weren't paying attention.


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i agree with you, except #7 (the machines stopped because they were thinking "wtf, the humans aren't supposed to die so easily") and #10. yeah the story does not make sense.

as for Jim Livingstone, he's saying "oh no it makes sense because IN THE FILM it makes sense".

yeah stupid. the problem is that it doesnt make sense in real life.

She was the boss!

1-4. The SARs AI was communicating with the outside world. The SARs AI sent orders for more soldiers to come to the training facility, because it needed more men to learn from. There is a scene in the movie where this is explained while Mills is trying to access the SARs AI. It is only when the soldiers arrive that the AI cuts off communication, and even then it may just be the soldiers ability to communicate. Mills clearly thought her creation was incapable of reprogramming its AI to such a degree. She thought there were some minor bugs that needed to be looked at, not a complete rewrite of the AI that would enable such destruction. I assume she didn't head straight to the research facility, because she wanted to first assess the SARs AI during an in=field operation. You have to remember that Mills still thought she had the situation under control even after people started dying; she was overconfident of the SARs AI that she built and the restraints put in place to control it.


6. One of the SARs began reprogramming itself. Over a million lines of code had been changed, which is why Mills decided to investigate.

7. The SARs robots are still following their initial directive, to learn through combat, albeit in a grossly unintended fashion. The SARs robots are inflicting enough harm to motivate the human combatants to fight for their lives in order to better learn from the tactics they utilize in the process.

8. Perhaps to better understand their weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

9. See 7.

10. I guess she pushed through the pain and managed it. I guess they could have included a scene of her grunting and groaning as she does it to appease viewers like yourself, but why bother with such tediousness when the viewer can just fill the gap themselves?

Pay attention to the movie next time. It's not Primer for god sake.

I wonder if this thread is the result of lack of attention or the result of dumbed down hollywood movies that explain everything, like for kids.