Automata (2014)

Automata (2014)
Directed by: Gabe Ibanez
Written by: Gabe Ibanez – Igor Legarreta – Javier Sanchez
Starring: Antonio Banderas - Brigitte Hjort Sorensen - Melanie Griffith
Duration: 109 minutes
Rating: Restricted 

The year is 2014, you are walking past a DVD stand and browsing through the new releases and suddenly you stumble upon a cover with Antonio Banderas on it… no do not worry you are not travelling back in time… no do not panic this is not another Nicolas Cage B, wait C, wait D class movie… this is one hell of a film starring Puss away from boots, not so dumb Latino from the expendables in a futuristic masterpiece… this is Antonio Banderas finally reaching his peak…

This is a sci-fi flick made for those who wanted more out of I-Robot… for those who needed to see beyond A.I. this is a film setting new standards for human robot interaction… this time round you will not sympathize much with humans cause they have apparently lost their humanity in the setting of this film, nor will you be able to detach yourself from imagining a world controlled by a creation more intelligent than its creators…

Shot in true elegance, and with a sense of the 80s and 90s western movies to it, and a taste of the old wild wild west without falling apart into the lame and improbable this is a film that is capable of hooking you to a probability of a whole new dimension without letting go of our current reality… this is one underrated film that might slide into the cult films genre… but it is totally blockbuster material without a dull moment throughout the journey of survival or saving humanity from its inhumanity…

Keep your eyes clear for the voices of Javier Bardem, Robert Forester and Melanie Grifiths.

Metascore: 37/100
Daffy Meter: 8/10 (artificial humanity and human clockwork…)