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Director: | Steven Gomez |
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Writer: | Steven Gomez |
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Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil. | |
Release Date: | May 13, 2016 |
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Director: | Steven Gomez |
Writer: | Steven Gomez |
Genres: | Action, Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller |
Keywords | artificial intelligence (a.i.), man vs machine, killer robot, technology, dystopia, forest, woods, robot, implant, prototype, evil robot, facility |
Production Companies | Vertigo Films, Bandito |
Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
Name | Character |
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Vanessa Kirby | Mills |
Thure Lindhardt | Captain Bukes |
David Ajala | Drifter |
Tom McKay | Cutbill |
Deborah Rosan | Laboratory Technician |
Bentley Kalu | Robinson |
Mike Noble | Goodwin |
Osi Okerafor | Loftus |
Kelly Gough | Hackett |
Sam Huntington | S.A.R (voice) |
Damian Kell | Winder |
Tim Ahern | Harbinger Exec. |
Name | Job |
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Nick Chopping | Stunt Coordinator |
Celeste Bothwick | Editor |
James Lapsley | Production Design |
James Atkins | Script Supervisor |
Yaya Leone | First Assistant Editor |
Daniel Bishop | Steadicam Operator |
Steven Gomez | Writer, Director |
Stephen Hilton | Music |
Alex Mackie | Editor |
Laurel Wear | Set Decoration |
Roxanne Cuenca | Script Supervisor |
Mark Nutkins | Camera Operator |
Fabrizio Sciarra | Steadicam Operator |
Vicky Wildman | Casting |
Jamie Gamache | Sound Effects Editor |
Simon Dennis | Director of Photography |
Noel Mulvaney | Animation |
Matthew Price | Costume Design |
Lol Hammond | Music Supervisor |
Jason Iqbal | First Assistant Camera |
Nick Wall | Still Photographer |
Jaz Rongokea | Visual Effects Producer |
Freddie Claire | Sound Recordist |
Udit Duseja | Sound Designer |
Harriet Thompson | Makeup Designer |
Andrew Gwyn Davies | Line Producer |
Henry Milliner | Sound Recordist |
Adam Slater | Gaffer |
Peter Duncan | Visual Effects Supervisor |
Clemens Endreß | Foley |
Roland Heap | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Buffy Hall | Casting |
Tom Tierney | Property Master |
Marc Specter | Dialogue Editor |
Enos Desjardins | Sound Designer |
JoJo Williams | Makeup Artist |
Sophie O'Neill | Assistant Costume Designer |
Name | Title |
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James Richardson | Producer |
Allan Niblo | Producer |
Jim Spencer | Producer |
Rupert Preston | Producer |
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Like _Dog Soldiers_ meets _The Terminator_, except nowhere near as good as either. Cliché sci-fi but with some great original designs. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._ ...
The plot of this movie is not exactly a new one. Robots created by humans, created to learn, decides to do things their way. The way of robots is usually detrimental to the health of any humans nearby. When the robots in question happens to be combat robots then shit is about to hit the fan … big ti ... me! It sounds pretty good. The problem is that I found the implementation rather mediocre. It starts off looking rather good with scenes of Mills in the company head quarters and a few cool scenes showing off her eye implants. The movie then moves on to present the military squad that are about to have an unpleasant first hand experience of the “robot way”. Unfortunately the writer fell for the all too boring and cheap plot element of making the commander an asshole who looks down on anyone who is not a marine grunt. Sigh. Then it is quickly off to the island training facility. After the obligatory banter between the marines and Mills in the rather bizarre and not very believable transport ship it is time for some action as the marines deploy. The rest of the movie is pretty much a long sequence alternating between shot outs between the troops and the robots and moments of reflection. The behavior of this so called elite marine squad is amateurish. The robots are underwhelming. What especially ticked me off was that the robots did not seem to be able to hit anything except by pure luck. And these were supposed to be high tech stuff. The marines even use simple smoke to evade them. What the fuck? Advanced killer robots in the future that relies on visual and cannot shoot straight? That is disappointing to say the least. Of course there had to be a big shootout in the end. Unfortunately it was just more of what we had seen before. Robots shooting, and missing, wildly. The marines killing them off in rather large, but not sufficiently large, numbers. Finally someone thought about using EMP charges. However here the writer comes up with another stupid plot element. Implants that were not immediately hurt by an EMP pulse but would slowly degrade afterwards and, just for good measure, erase the human memories of the implanted person as well. Contrived and stupid as far as I am concerned. The end? Well about as meh as you could expect from a low budget sci-fi/horror movie wannabe. The movie was not outright bad and it did have some interesting ideas but it was pretty clear that it was on a budget with constraints. The writing, the robot designs which seemed to be done by someone caring only about visual appearance and not if the design actually made sense, dragged down the movie.