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.
"The Machine" percolates with an elegantly palpable sense of wonder and danger.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr 2014
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,
23 Apr 2014
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,
22 Apr 2014
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,
21 Apr 2014
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.