Creatures from another sphere are the brainchild of George Almore, a wunderkind who lands a three-year experimental adventure in Japan to create robots. But there is a personal dimension to George's work that is a race against the clock to create the perfect form of artificial intelligence to house the essence of his wife whose life was taken in a tragic auto crash.
The filmmakers were successful in creating an environment that seemed appropriate for the dystopian world of the inventor. Some of the footage was spectacular of the waterfall and the winter scape where George was working.
On the negative side, the film's narrative was convoluted, and the flashback sequences were awkwardly inserted. Another flaw was the character of James himself, who seemed naive about his creation of the sentient beings. He never grasped that he was, like Dr. Frankenstein, endowing beings with consciousness who felt human emotions. Robots #s 1, 2, and 3 were all too endearing, and it was sad that George was not in touch with their feelings.
The film's big plot twist was also disappointing. It strained too much logic and the built-in premise of the film to pull the rug out from under the audience at the end. This film should be filed in the archive of an imaginative movie that never quite worked.
The filmmakers were successful in creating an environment that seemed appropriate for the dystopian world of the inventor. Some of the footage was spectacular of the waterfall and the winter scape where George was working.
On the negative side, the film's narrative was convoluted, and the flashback sequences were awkwardly inserted. Another flaw was the character of James himself, who seemed naive about his creation of the sentient beings. He never grasped that he was, like Dr. Frankenstein, endowing beings with consciousness who felt human emotions. Robots #s 1, 2, and 3 were all too endearing, and it was sad that George was not in touch with their feelings.
The film's big plot twist was also disappointing. It strained too much logic and the built-in premise of the film to pull the rug out from under the audience at the end. This film should be filed in the archive of an imaginative movie that never quite worked.