garrya-91199
Philosophically relevant, dark and foreboding, Automata visually reminds me of Blade Runner 1, District 9, perhaps The Machine and of course my favourite, Ex Machina. It questions our right to rule, what it is to be human, robot sentience and "The Meaning of Life" itself. Where I Robot and Bicentennial Man are slick and glossy, this movie is the exact opposite. Dirty, dark and rough around the edges. It's gritty, engaging intellectually and emotionally satisfying. I'll leave other reviewers to go over the plot, but my advice is to bring out a large glass of whisky, sit down in a comfy chair and enjoy a movie that is very different to most and a reminder of what good writing and acting can accomplish.
paulortiz12
Overall pretty enjoyable, even if a little slow paced and repetitive at times. Most of my problems with the film are, I imagine, related to the budget available to the filmmakers so I let a lot of stuff slide (and to be fair it does still look good in places).My biggest issue is the way humanity is portrayed as an almost entirely irrational, desperate, dying race that can't see the virtue of living side by side with incredibly advanced, living machines. I mean, 99% of the worlds population is gone. Even something so simple as a car is considered rare. The extent to which humans are dependent on robots is never really revealed, so their fear of losing them as servants feels more like pride or ego than survival. And you wonder, with the radioactive desert expanding and human numbers dwindling, if this would really be a priority? I dunno. It just didn't quite sit right with me. But maybe that's how it'd be. Humans can be pretty silly sometimes.Plus there's a huge discrepancy in the fact that human technology has regressed so far as people using fax machines yet the robots are built and maintained somewhere. The humans are using old crt screens and the robots have holographic displays. Hmm.Anyway that said it was still kinda cool. I would've liked to know what Cleo and the newborn were heading towards in the radioactive zone. Other robots? Would she be able to build more once she got there? Who knows!
Ladiloque Boh
A) What you state is against the protocols B) Protocols are contained in the bio-kernel which is based on a quantistic crypto-technology C) ERGO, what you state is nonsense.This is dumb screenplay enough for me to stop watching anything... even Gemma Arterton going L on Amber Heard and Odette Annable... well, maybe not that extreme... Automata clearly aims to celebrity and achieves nothing but mediocrity: acting and visual design are OK but the writing and especially the overall story design feels like 40 years late. A lot of details signal the superficiality of authors' perspective; the invention and scientific explanations reminds me of jokes among high schoolers: when this happens, you know the writer doesn't know what he's talking about. I couldn't watch more than half the movie; maybe it's not that bad, but sci-fi must be good and believable imho: unfortunately this is not. Blade Runner (and 10-20 other major movies) was written by someone with a little knowledge yet enough creativity and wisdom to avoid goofs: this is a bad clone by someone who can't find the difference between a Turing machine and a blender. OR - even more seriously - the difference between a drama and a parody.
Vitor Theophilo
No many special effects like American movies but even so a good work. Antonio Banderas without doubt is always a great attraction of the movie. Another amazing thing is the design of the robots, their movements, their expressions and their way of walking. OK that the stories about robots are almost always the same however the photograph of this film is simply wonderful. Watch please.
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