Fresh
"The Machine" percolates with an elegantly palpable sense of wonder and danger.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
The Machine
They rise. We fall.
2013 · 1h 32m · R
Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Caradog W. James
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
Rotten
"The Machine" works modestly well, but still wobbles trying to balance its "thinking man's sci-fi" aspirations against the need to placate less adventurous fans via standard action content.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Rotten
The Machine brings little new to the subject save for an ominously ambiguous conclusion about the consequences of making computers more advanced than their human masters.
Nick Schager, Village Voice
Fresh
A classy slice of cerebral sci-fi with a literary-cinematic heritage stretching back through Blade Runner and Metropolis to Frankenstein.
Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
Good British sci-fis don't come along very often, so this stylish slice of a dystopian near-future should be welcomed by fans.
Anna Smith, Time Out
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