Review of The Machine

The Machine (I) (2013)
2/10
a cheap looking and sounding movie with nothing in common with blade runner whatsoever
13 September 2014
on the back of the DVD box it said something like.. the closest movie to blade runner since 1981 with blade runner written in bold type

please know that this movie even though it was made in 2013, looks and sounds like a made for TV British film made in the 1990's. It starts off reasonably but it quickly becomes evident that this is not a good movie at all

the direction is all over the place, the visual effects look cheap and nasty with no effort made to obscure this, and there is no interesting sound at all. the score is irritating, vangelis this isn't, there is absolutely no ambiance present.. no machinery hums, nothing. what?

let's discuss blade runner for a moment.. . blade runner had an incredible score which doubled as ambiance most of the time. the replicants were good because they were acted out as humans, there was no hammy robot impressions. this is not so in the machine. in the machine they have their own klingon style language and each actor is pretending to be a robot with the main one acting like a small child

the ending is abrupt and confused. either avoid this movie or know what to expect before you see it, i.e don't pay any attention to the blurb on the back of the DVD box
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