The Machine
Two computer programmers fell in love when they make a breakthrough in human intelligence to help humanity. But all things started to go wrong when the MoD stole their breakthrough and teach it to become a robot weapon. What could happen after that? Could they do something to solve the problem?
1974, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
30 December 1986, San Diego, California, USA
1986, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
21 April 1969, Middlesex Hospital, London, England, UK
27 September 1947, Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
7 February 1976, Glynneath, South Wales, UK
29 March 1972, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
April 28, 2014
Some movies you find yourself liking despite of their mistakes, and this 2013 movie filmed in Wales is one of those movies.
April 23, 2014
"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.
March 07, 2016
With many writers and directors keen to give a look at a future ravaged by impending war, it's a breath of fresh air when someone shows an evolutionary leap towards harmony.
April 24, 2014
The Machine asks all the right questions yet does so without any heavy-handiness.
November 07, 2014
The film is ambitious visually, in spite of its small budget, and while not all of the effects come off, it's hard to hold that against an indie production like this.
April 24, 2014
"The Machine" percolates with an elegantly palpable sense of wonder and danger.
April 22, 2014
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.
June 16, 2014
The first hour's setup of "The Machine" is better than the threadbare guns-blazing action payoff, but the exceptionally fine work of Caity Lotz commands attention.
April 24, 2014
Machine retains a dynamic presence, with interesting futureworld ideas sharply realized by writer/director Caradog W. James, who submits quite a cinematic vision for next to no production money.
March 18, 2014
Good British sci-fis don't come along very often, so this stylish slice of a dystopian near-future should be welcomed by fans.
April 24, 2014
The Machine is listening to the language of other science-fiction films-but [...] isn't up on the dialect, and hears only echoes of substance.
April 21, 2014
A classy slice of cerebral sci-fi with a literary-cinematic heritage stretching back through Blade Runner and Metropolis to Frankenstein.
