Rotten
After an excellent beginning, the craven script (based on DF Jones' novel Colossus) develops cold feet, injects some tiresome comic relief, and gradually begins to drag the whole thing down.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Colossus: The Forbin Project
This is the dawning of the Age of Colossus (where peace is compulsory... freedom is forbidden... and Man's greatest invention could be Man's greatest mistake).
1970 · 1h 40m · M
Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Joseph Sargent
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Colossus: The Forbin Project
Overview
The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Director and cast
- Joseph Sargent Director
- Eric Braeden as Dr Charles Forbin
- Susan Clark as Dr. Cleo Markham
- Gordon Pinsent as The President
- William Schallert as CIA Director Grauber
- Georg Stanford Brown as Dr. John F. Fisher
- Willard Sage as Dr. Blake
- Alex Rodine as Dr. Kuprin
- Martin E. Brooks as Dr. Jefferson J. Johnson
- Marion Ross as Angela Fields
- Dolph Sweet as Missile Commander
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The movie is full of marvelous, absurd dialogue.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Above-average science fiction.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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