The Machine (I) (2013)
2/10
Slow burn sci-fi that's almost unwatchable
29 June 2014
Warning: Spoilers
I watched this movie last night, and I'll preface this very short review by saying I vocally questioned the movie multiple times with "is everyone in this place really that stupid?!"

Couldn't stand the pacing. Couldn't stand the acting (Toby Stephens was alright most of the time). The main actress (Caity Lotz) was only slightly more tolerable when she was a robot than she was as a human. The logic was all over the place and ridiculously flawed. One minute it seems the military installation is advanced and under tight guard, even pivotal to winning the cold war with China, and the next Lotz is wandering off and hacking into computers like no one's watching. Almost everything was telegraphed, and I was incredibly surprised when their wasn't a sex scene between man and his newly-created sex bot (not being crass, but seeing how terrible most of this movie was in the B-movie sense I was really expecting it).

I can't confidently recommend this to anyone. The movie looks pretty at times, but I was bored and frustrated through most of it.
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