Poster

Machine, The

Year

2013

Genre

Sci-Fi, Thriller

Country

UK

Director

Caradog W. James

Writer

Caradog W. James

Actors

Caity Lotz, Toby Stephens, Sam Hazeldine, Denis Lawson, Pooneh Hajimohammadi, Lee Nicholas Harris, Siwan Morris, Sule Rimi, Helen Griffin, Ben McGregor, Stuart Matthews, John-Paul Macleod, Alan Low, Jonathan Byrne, John Stylianou

Description

Two artificial intelligence engineers come together as they work to create the first ever self-aware artificial intelligence. A veteran AI engineer secretly hopes to develop technology to help his diseased daughter, even if it means funding comes from the powerful Ministry of Defense (MoD). His new partner, a young woman gifted in the field of AI, is brought on after her breakthroughs are recognized by the MoD. Things go wrong when the MoD takes over and advances the researchers' work to the next level, teaching the AI to kill and follow MoD instructions with its new and nearly indestructible body. ------- Set in the future and with the world plunged in economic crisis a new cold war with China, Britain's Ministry of Defense (MoD) is on the verge of developing the world's first artificially intelligent robotic soldier. The robot sounds and looks human but has amazing strength, speed, and agility. When the defense project gets close to completion, the AI controlled robot is pulled from the research and testing phase and thrust into military training mode. The child-like AI is traumatized by the transition, the way a pit bull puppy might be when brutalized for similar purposes. In a broad effort to preserve itself and those it has come to care about, the AI robot and a posse of cyborg veterans working within the MoD stage a lethal takeover of the research facility.

Comments

Duration

91 minutes (at 23.98 frames per second)

Filesize

1614 MB

Video

MPEG-4 Visual - resolution: 720x384

Audio