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The Machine is set in the near future where Britain is still in recession and the there is a cold war between the West and China. Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens) a scientist working with the MOD is trying to create an implant that will bring human feeling and emotion back to the war veterans that he is treating, which will also be used in not only the robotic soldiers but the robotic peacekeepers as well. It is revealed that Vincent's daughter is extremely mentally disabled, providing another interest for his research. The implants that he has developed make the patients extremely violent and also seemingly unable to communicate. Vincent teams up with Ava (Caity Lotz) who has developed software in which the robot isn't programmed, but learns from talking with her creator and shows signs of life and emotion. He hopes that with this technology he will make the breakthrough to making a conscious machine and on a personal side help cure his daughter. Ava becomes suspicious of the operation after she enters a restricted area and finds that the patients are kept as prisoners and does not trust Vincent's boss Thomson (Denis Lawson), and suspects his motives are against what she believes in. Ava's snooping didn't go unnoticed by Thomson and he had her assassinated. Vincent then goes about putting Ava's software into a cyborg which is in the image of Ava herself, and so the Machine is born. To find out what happens I suggest you get to the cinema in March 2014 when the film will be released in the UK. The Q&A at the end of the film with director Caradog James and producer John Giwa-Amu gave a greater insight into the films motives and workings. Carodog explained about the great level of research he did in preparation for the film, visiting the MOD and looking into the research they are currently conducting into robotics where they are looking at organic cells to assist how they develop Artificial Intelligence. He mentioned the quantum theory work of Roger Penrose who has researched consciousness and the brain. On talking about the future of humans and cyborgs, he thought the more realistic future would see how we augment our bodies such as with Google Glasses and he also mentioned how one audience member at the premiere in Tribeca had a chip in his hand to be able to access his computer. So maybe the future for is not too distant! Most of the audience enjoyed the film and questions of what it means to be human obviously arose, as well as the comparisons to Frankenstein. There was one festival goer who exclaimed that he thought the end of the film was like a scene in a video game and accused the producer and director of adding this for monetary reasons. They came back with the difficulty of balancing commerce with art, and that commerce doesn't necessarily mean making money but reaching a greater audience. Carodog finished by saying that their next film will be a horror, that they hope someone in the audience will be so scared they will have a heart attack – he hoped it would be the guy that asked the last question! To see the review on the Bath Film Festival blog please visit: http://bathffblogger.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/the-machine/

I watched this movie last night, and I'll preface this very short review by saying I vocally questioned the movie multiple times with "is everyone in this place really that stupid?!" Couldn't stand the pacing. Couldn't stand the acting (Toby Stephens was alright most of the time). The main actress (Caity Lotz) was only slightly more tolerable when she was a robot than she was as a human. The logic was all over the place and ridiculously flawed. One minute it seems the military installation is advanced and under tight guard, even pivotal to winning the cold war with China, and the next Lotz is wandering off and hacking into computers like no one's watching. Almost everything was telegraphed, and I was incredibly surprised when their wasn't a sex scene between man and his newly-created sex bot (not being crass, but seeing how terrible most of this movie was in the B-movie sense I was really expecting it). I can't confidently recommend this to anyone. The movie looks pretty at times, but I was bored and frustrated through most of it.

considering its low budget and less known cast...the movie was a great piece of work.... it has a decent storyline as well as pretty decent acting by all the cast.... truly....its a worth watching movie for science fiction lovers.... the movie provides a general description of the world with fastly developing AI and humanizing the machines more and more some scenes are sloppy but that is somewhat predicted by most of the audience overall....u will be hardly disappointed by the effort that is put into the movie....

A.I. usually comes in four standard flavors: 1.) The program that resides in a singular non-robotic machine or device such as HAL in Space Odyssey. 2.) The ubiquitous program that infiltrates every computer related device on a network such as Skynet or the Matrix. 3.) The A.I. that inhabits a robot that is obviously a machine like Johnny 5 in Short Circuit or Chappie. 4.) The A.I. that inhabits an android type body of which is virtually indistinguishable from a human like D.A.R.Y.L., David from A.I., or the androids in Blade Runner. The Machine is of the fourth type. The vessel was a very attractive female that was patterned after her creator, Ava (Caity Lotz). She was just robotic enough in her movements, gestures and speech to know she wasn't real, but still human enough to question your feelings about her. This movie was dark, both literally and figuratively. I don't think there was any sun shown until the very end. The Machine (meaning the movie because the android was simply called Machine as well) had a mysterious element to it as is usually the case when governments are involved. The government wanted a weapon and Dr. Vincent McCarthy, the lead scientist for the government project, wanted something entirely different. The two parties clash in a violent way. This is not one of my favorite A.I. movies but it is done pretty well. They never introduced a truly unique perspective on the topic so it didn't move the scales much. The acting was passable as were the special effects so I'd say the movie was between OK and good, leaning more towards good.

i am at a loss to know why this has the rating it has. i was deeply disappointed by the whole effort. a more derivative movie you could not hope to see. from the opening titles we know this is another terminator rip off. the comparisons to blade runner are franky utterly risible. there is no depth to the characters at all, and every scene reminds you of a another, far better scene in blade runner, terminator etc. oh and let's not forget the dead horse that is Minority Report translucent touch screens. i can only imagine the female lead was squirming at the awful lines she was given.the little innocent programmed to be a killing 'machine'.. a morphy richards toaster would have been more terrifying. all the way down to the oh -so-tired and cliché-ridden denouement of the 'main villain'.. which of course is a steal of batty crushing poor tyrells head in blade runner. can the maker repair what he makes? not this time. utter drivel, in fact i am changing my rating from 4 to 3.. the label on this machine should say 'return if not satisfied' shockingly bad.

I wanted to like this film. I wanted it to succeed - a low-budget British film which isn't bonnet-laden and set in Victorian times or about family-strife on a dreary and gritty council estate, is always welcome. In an age where we're force-fed endless American tripe, such a film as this ought to be supported. It has many of the right ingredients - decent (not star) actors, a few good ideas and pretty good cinematography and effects. But the tone is just so utterly flat... There's no tension, no drama, no excitement. No-one really emotes or even raises their voice very much. It's like listening to a one-note tune. And speaking of tunes - ripping off the Blade Runner theme for a film which is is obviously an homage to that classic, is a really bad idea. It simply reminds everyone how many miles away from the genius of Blade Runner this little effort actually is. Nice try, must try harder.