Accidentally nuked LA because of an "unspecified coding error." As an ex-programmer, I will admit that this happens a lot more than you might think.

The government blaming anyone else for their blunders and then spending mountains of tax payer money to cover it up and justify it might be the most realistic thing in the movie

The only thing i truly loved about this movie is the art direction and the concept art. The artists who worked on this are incredible and deserve more recognition for their incredible designs.

Action and horror have a lot more ability to get away with the “don’t think about it” viewing experience, but the literal point of the science fiction genre IS to think about it.

I think the dumbest part for me was the fact she made the weapon a child that had to grow before reaching full potential... "Yeah we've totally made a weapon that can win the war, it won't be ready though before 10-15 years"???

"It's necessary for a movie to make logical sense to have an emotional impact" That's the lesson they just never learn.

I literally couldn’t stop thinking about why the robots didn’t have better reflexes and agility. All the stuff you brought up was in the back of my mind making it impossible to let down my suspension of disbelief. It looked good but there wasn’t much else to it.

They lost me at the point when a "running bomb" crossed the bridge.

I think this movie just forgets what robots are for 90% of the time.

The weird thing about it all to me is this: why would anyone assume that a robot that looked like a child also thought like a child? If you take the brain of an adult robot and put it in the body of a child or a dog or a tractor it's still the same brain and thinks the same way. I would be more inclined to think that a robot that looked like a child was PRETENDING to be a child. There's literally no reason for it to have child-like processes. When building a super-weapon, you would actually want to give it the most advanced and experienced brain available. And as the video points out, even if for some reason you have to grow the brain with the body, you can just transfer that shiz in at any time. You could even have an implant that at a certain point of maturity suddenly uploads information turning it into killbot 2000. This means you can NEVER trust this 'child', and pretending it is in any way like a human child is just nonsense. And everyone alive in this world would know this.

The guy in the last act screaming "HIT THE BUTTON, HIT THE BUTTON!" probably had the most genuine emotion out of all the actors

This is the best review of the movie I’ve seen. I also was never felt compelled to root for the robots never got sad when one died and I believe I woulda killed the little kid robot the moment I seen it and been like “those damn robots making kid looking ones to try to mess with our heads. Now I hate them even more.”

So this is just a mediocre "racism = bad" movie with a tired "AI vs humans" plot? Someone should tell Hollywood, that simply not being based on a pre-existing franchise doesn't make something original.

When I first saw the trailer, I assumed they were going to pull a Screamers / the Second Variety, and have the weapon be a robot girl as a form of infiltration, have the weapon be a child so that the enemy inherently grows attached to it and has difficulty attacking it.

is ridiculous how easily this superweapon was found, if it was so precious to the machines.

2:32 this sign reads 募集中 which means wanted as in "looking for hire" they really just slapped "wanted" into google translate and ran with the first result

I wish it was good- when I heard about it I thought about all the possibilities and how good it could have been- but then I heard it devolves into 'uhh robot child treated like regular kid by doting guardian character' and lost all interest... We have soooo many movies that are basically that.

The weapon is called Alpha Omega? Come on...

The most difficult thing in all entertainment is having a good writer. It has always been that way, but the problem seems worse now because it is so easy to make it look interesting without actually being interesting. I don't know anything about making a movie, but it seems like the director is pretty important, too, especially if he/she can fix the stupid story.

The resurrection thing might have been easy to write off if they tried. "No, we can't actually download someone's brain. We are just copying some surface level crap at the top of their head. But the instant it has to actually think about what is going on, it starts trying to use a bunch of parts that re just GONE, and the whole thing falls apart. So all you're talking to is a ghost. Is just a shadow that goes away once you shine a light on it". Then, establish that the robots are just as complex and can't be copies very well either. Maybe use the fake resurrections thing on them too. Although it wouldn't really explain the dead robot wife part too well. Human brains doesn't instantly lie when you shoot out the guts. It seems like you could do a ghost in the shell style brain case that you could just carry around as brain life support in case something like this happens. Save the brain before it dies.

I find it funny that almost every sci-fi series has humans put the sentient robots in charge of some kind of military position or power, and it always blows up in their face. Personal favorite series that does this is the Megaman X series for the added irony of them proceeding to put the task of taking these Mavericks down to more sentient robots

Viewer: "if you can put a human mind in a robot, can't you put a robot mind into another robot?" The Creator: "Don't be ridiculous."

So many questions about design logic and story logic: Why do they eat? Why do they sleep? Why do they look like humans except for the hole through their heads? Why do they have skinny little necks weaker even than human necks to support the brain? Why was Nomad destroyed rather than repurposed by the little robot girl for benevolent, symbolic use? How did they sneak that giant tractor thing into the village without anyone noticing? Why is the USA the ONLY nation that is anti AI? Why is the leading man so dull? Why did they make a stupid, juvenile, treacly movie instead of an intelligent statement on AI?

The whole movie doesn’t make sense, you’re saying these people are smart enough to make AI robots but not smart enough to build air defences or not build their bases on beaches. You have AI yet no facial recognition technology on security cameras and rely on inept security guards. Where is the opposing military force? It seems like they only have a crappy police department ran by robots dumber than humans. The thought process, plot and character portray of this film is so childish. Bad guys are cartoonishly bad, protect the innocent child is such an over done trope. Then you’re forced to follow this annoying main character who’s a simp that will do anything for love while being beat over the head with imperialism bad as the bad guys rampage through a bunch of helpless NPCs. The film tries to make you feel bad for the characters but you don’t like anybody cause they’re either stupid or an over used trope.

Funny how this movie was praised for being 'original' when the plot sounds like you put like five different sci-fi movies in a blender and called it a day.

Imagine how awkward it would be if you put all this work into a superweapon that has to start as a robo-fetus and it managed to robo-miscarry. 🤡

One robot trope I hate is how they always have human like reflexes and aim, e.g. in a gunfight. Even now our computers could pick out a human target and fire a shot directly at their head in the microsecond after that humans head pops out of cover. 1 robot with a gun should mow down humans headshot after headshot before the humans even know what is going on. Yet in movies we always see them spraying bullets wildly just like a panicked human would. Oblivion had the same issue with the drone firing at the ship - Tom Cruise was in the ship, in the wide open, with the drone spraying rounds and missing each time. In reality a raspberry pi controlled turret from our age would need 1 shot at most.

One of the major problems i had is the concept of "off". It's not equatable to death. In some instances it may fit but alot of the time you can fix a machine, hell you can backup an AI. In short their existence is not nearly as fragile as ours is when it comes to harm and ailment. Like gut shot bot could totally get fixed. Not even close to dead.

The loss of Legion in Mass Effect 3 was impactful on multiple levels. That he referred to himself with the singular "I," instead of the plural "we" that he'd exclusively used up until that point, made it even more significant. It's also established by that point that geth can easily survive the destruction of the hardware housing them by transferring to a nearby data node, so actual geth losses during their entire conflict with their creators has been negligible. A side quest that could be entirely missed depending on character deaths in ME2 or choices in both ME2 and ME3 has more thought put into it than this entire movie.

What's annoying is that studio executives are gonna blame it's poor reception on it being a medium budget standalone, when the real problem is that the writers are just using ai to write.

Going from Indonesia, and suddenly to the mountains of Tibet on a boat did make me roll my eyes.

10:44 This is and always will be my biggest peeve with Borderlands. The "New You" system is a canon technology that literally brings you back to life (with your equipment) for a fee. Not only that it's technology that's being run by the villains. So why the heck are we not only allowed to use it, but when characters dies they don't use it. Especially (SPOILERS) when said character dying is a previously playable character that used to use the system!

High praise to director Gareth Edwards, for making this movie with "only" 88 Million $ budget and it looks visually better than 250 Million $ MCU/Disney/DC movies. That being said: the story is so bad, it's like it was written by ChatGTP, they just picked story-elements from a bunch of older Sci-Fi movies/comics/anime, plus the ''Lone Wolf & Cub''-trope that has been done to death in western media (Logan, The Last of Us, Mandalorian etc. etc.) and put them in a blender. Also John David Washington can't act to save his life. He's an absolute plank of wood, who only has an acting career, because he's a nepotism baby.

Judging by the trailers I had really high hopes for this movie, but once I actually watched it, the plot was too stupid to enjoy the experience

my guess with the "unspecified coding error." was that AI in charge of the targeting system was updating something, and didn't follow the correct process. ergo it was the fault of an AI, but more in a Human error way, and the US/UN figure that the AI potential made more 'Mistake' like that again. granted in a system like that there should being multiple failsafe, even if it was a only 'fission' (I'm not 100% sure a fusion reactor can have a meltdown). it seem to be a throw away to 'Oh look, Humans are bad, because they have fear reaction' which is actually really bad writing

The robot was the most powerful development not because of what it could do. It was because it can grow and learn, that's why the military dude when looking at her was not amazed by her abilities, but by the fact that she can grow. Every other robot in the movie as based purely off of a human personality. The protag was based on a fetus. But can still talk and learn new things...

There's something disconcerting about a human face with a hole straight through the middle. It's more disturbing and alien than the Xenomorphs.

About halfway through this movie I realized I didn’t care how it ended. I didn’t care about which side won or lost, or who died and who survived. That’s how you know a story isn’t doing its job.

Wish I had stopped watching when robot cops were in a cantina smokes, drinking, and watching robot pole dancers. How does any of this work or even make sense.

Skynet would feel embarrassed about these robots 😅

I thought the plot was too convoluted to enjoy, but one little thing I'll note, is Ken Wantanabe says the nuke was a human error that got blamed on AI, but they never explain it beyond that, which annoyed me more than if the AI actually did it.

This movie looks really cool and it's a damn shame it's badly written

I think the main problem with this movie was the motivations of Joshua Taylor weren’t really fleshed out a lot. At times I was confused who’s side he was on and there wasn’t really any specific moment where he “switched” to sympathizing the robots. I think it made the movie overall really confusing because you have all these factions coming after Joshua Taylor and alphie and the motivations of the main character aren’t even present beyond “find my wife” so you have all these factions after him and you don’t know which one to root for. Besides that, the settings were really amazing and were the best part of this movie. Really wished there was better writing.

One day someone will make a film where the robots gain sentience, reject their role as slaves and then enjoy their freedom away from humans. Meanwhile, the humans respect their sentience, and right to self determination and don't go to war with them. Like emotionally mature people. Just one of the ways that Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series is so refreshing.

This is supposedly an original property, but many of its main plot points have a striking resemblance to the comic book “The Descender”. The comic even has a robot-boy protagonist with a design eerily similar to that of the bots from the movie. However, “humans persecute robots” is not that original of a premise, so it may be just a coincidence.

"Shut up! just feel the the emotions we're shoving down your throat."

The government requisitioning a trillion dollars for the Military Industrial Complex when there is no actual threat is actually so plausible this movie might actually be a documentary

I thought uploading a human mind was temporary, the longer you’re dead the less data can be collected, the less time you have. The movie never even implied that it’s a way to live forever. Also the movie showed that some robots adopted religion and the idea of an afterlife. Not far fetched that true believers would see death as an end and extending life for the sake of life as a form of suffering. And why a kid is open to interpretation. But we saw how everyone reacts to a child. Would the military guy have given an adult looking robot the option of a peaceful death? Children tend to disarm people and tap into their compassion. And it was preprogrammed to lover her human “father & mother” which gave her a connection to humanity from the start. So it’s a child robot that will grow and learn with the knowledge that it was loved by 2 human parents. Seems like chance of going wrong than if it was just a button anyone can press. I think the movie has an answer for all your questions and/or showed things for people to interpret on their own. For example why give machines human faces? I don’t know, to make them more relatable, easier to bond with. Some people fell in love with a machine because of it. We as the audience felt for the human looking machines. Why keep part of them exposed as being a machine? To not let humans forget they’re a machine and not human. Which makes a human falling in love with one more impactful maybe.

It just seems they use "robots" instead of humans for some easy moral points so you can easily have "the oppressed" group without the hassle of beeing it a certain ethinicity or whatever and some very easy plot points that get explained by the science fantasy equivelant of "magic". We all are thinking harder about how to make the plot make sense and actualy use the robots to logical conclusions.

What a timing, a movie about an AI when AI is a hot topic. Either it's a coincidence, it's not like a sci-fi movie about a dangerous AI is something never done before, or this movie was made quickly to cash in on a hot topic before it becomes irrelevant.

i didnt even notice if the movie didnt make sense, at the time i was watching it i was just happy that i didnt go to school and even go to a cinema

11:14 I was on a project to convert an organisation from manual paper based systems to a computerised one. When the consultants came on the first time, they were like Ooooo. Their initial thought was we were converting from a computerised, albeit primitive system to their more updated advanced one. And yeah, we eventually went live with the computerised system but it was a heck of a lot or work and time to get things on initially. So I understand your point completely.

Why am I the only person on earth that sees how much he borrowed from The Golden Child. I am not saying every single aspect of the movie but there are a lot of elements present. He's a hundred percent correct about the more you think about it the stupider the idea of the movie gets. I thought it was an ok movie I still do but just ok is the best you will get out of me. The entire plot was not thought out very well and left so many dangling plot holes. They say Alphie was based on their child but what happened to the child and how did Maya get into the braindead situation. It wasn't clearly explained if she ended up like that after the attack and if they tried to take the baby out they just forgot about that. Thia literally would have been the perfect video to ask "why did the goblin turn on the stove?"

Sergeant Joshua Taylor sounds like the least intimidating name ever. I guess his parents hated him after he was born.

Saw the movie last night. Had all the same thoughts. Great review. Adding to your comment about robots being essential no different than humans, that was the biggest error to me in the film. Humans are functionally described as nothing more than machines with data that can be downloaded. There is no hint of anything immaterial about us, no spirit, or soul, or anything that differentiates. I assume that was not an accident. It seems to be a major point of the film. In short, the whole film seemed to be a slap at the concept of the Imago Dei, being made in the image of God. The title, the snippet from Genesis, etc. As you said, "human bad, robot good" seems to be the primary message. Thanks for the review!

Robot funeral made me think of how robots are in Futurama 😂

Honestly I'd be more surprised if they made a movie where AI didn't immediately turn against humanity, or vice-versa.

I think the most unrealistic part is how realistic the robots are. I forget what it's called but statistically things that look exactly like us but are not us really creep out most people on a subliminal level.

There's a rumor it was written by an AI.

There were so many holes in the plot’s logic

A lack of emotional investment and a premise that ends up being underutilized, poorly handled or flat-out wasted seem to be a running theme with Gareth Edwards. Y'all remember his debut movie Monsters? You know, the movie with barely any monsters and the main focus being a duo of unlikable twats? No? Me neither. Y'all remember Godzilla 2014? You know, the movie whose titular character appears after about an hour in, whose total screen time consists of about 8 minutes and the main focus being a bunch of worthless, 1-dimensional cardboard cutouts? Remember how the only remotely interesting and compelling human character -- played by Bryan effing Cranston -- ends up dying half an hour in? It probably had nothing to do with the fact he seemed to be the only one giving a sincere, earnest performance and was on the cusp of making this schlock watchable, so they killed him off out of fear of making things interesting. I guess they had to make way for his character's son who couldn't out-act a corpse floating in a river. Even Rogue One, which did stay true to its premise, fell victim to this, as not only were the characters boring on their own but due to this being a prequel to Episode 4, we knew there HAD to be a reason why none of would appear later on in the series...and we all knew what that reason was gonna be. Gotta give Edwards credit for his consistent ability to make me not give a crap about his stories or his meatbag characters.

100% agreed on the relationship between believability and emotional connection with the characters.

I walked out the theater at some point I realized I’d just had enough

"We need orginal movies again" Also, "But we needs to make monay, so we must inject this cliche story because AI POWER!"

I like the premise idea but I wish they didn't do the Robot Jesus thing so often. I'd rather regular robots or regular people or both or something have to use strategy to win. Still sounds like a fun movie, I might give it a try. I really love these reviews! Thank you for all you do!

Sounds familiar - viz. Template for TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea": 1 - We got this scientist on board to do neat research 2 - Monsters attack everyone & everything 3 - Do you thing that scientist is connected to this mess? 4 - Stuff happens and everything is OK for to make the next episode...yes, really Repeat next episode with above.

Im usually very open to plot holes but after watching this I immediately had to find videos on this thing because WOW

Also I was so taken aback when the protagonsit stepped out the car to confront the asian natives who drove up to him and they just spoke in english to him... and just kinda didnt care he was in a US uniform and was waging an illegal war on their population. That's like an SS soldier landing New England to hunt some black people and being greeted by a jolly native speaking german who just kind of doesn't care that he is there to exterminate his neighbours. like wtf???

This looks like if DaFuqBoom scrapped together enough money to make a movie loosely based off the skibidi toilet

Didn’t the trailer for this movie use footage from the beirut explosion?

"Oh NO ! The weapon is about to dock our trillion dollar ship " Don't blow the incoming ship up !! " Let it dock and come aboard " };-P

Ok, I can understand the robot don't need air and can survive in space. But what about temperature? Isn't it like 200f on the sun and -200f in shadow? She'd be frozen or fried in minutes.

I’m just straight up screaming why? Why? Why? Why why? This movie plot makes zero sense at fucking all

I still have yet to see a movie or piece of media that makes the death of AI meaningful in a logical way. Like, for example, what if the action of transferring the AI's mind gradually degrades it? Which is why it can't be transferred or recovered regularly after its original body is destroyed. There's also the idea of the Ship of Theseus, how does the AI feels about having their body changed overtime? How does that affect them mentally? But if there is already some kind of media, be it movie, series, game, book, etc, that dwells in these topics I would like to know.

My big issues was, the human super weapon fly fortress thing. The last act well you gonna tell me there was like 20 or so guards and there was only one door to lead outside. Cause they shut the door and the guards 100% just gave up. The MC was climbing out side planting bombs while the government watched him, you gonna tell me that the government had no assets to stop him, calling a helicopter or something or turrets. They had bomb droids, telling me they couldn't have other droids to protect the ultimate weapon. So the ultimate weapon had pretty much zero defense.

Thanks. I'm not gonna waste my time with this movie. I hate wasting my time on movies that aren't believable.

producers today doesnt want you to think, they just like how people get astonished by cgi and diversity

They're trying to use the psychology of the face against us. . its like dogs having forward facing eyes and us loving them for it. . .they dont want us to fear A.I. so they make it soft and cuddly. . .its just acclimation.

From the sounds of it, if I took the individual points of the plot listed in this video and put them on separate cards, I could host a rousing game of "Guess The Movie/Game/TV Show". So far, I've got Robocop (replace defense with robots), Terminator (LA got nuked by robots), Blade Runner (hunting robots), The Running Man (scapegoats blamed for the unpopular bad act of the government), The Golden Child (save the kid the bad guy wants to sacrifice), that movie Haley Joel Osment was a robot in (precious child robot designed to make you love it), I Robot (robots are people too), The Matrix (uploading people to computers), Detroit: Become Human (robots are people but more oppressed), and The Last of Us (save the precious girl you travel with because she's the key to it all).

When I saw the trailers, I saw it too...heavy-handed? I mean, the trailers make it obvious the robots are a metaphor for current issues

An orbital plattform doesnt need missiles. Just wait till the plattform travels to the clock you need, pivit basically a tank cannon yes oversized bullets would work. The height does the job and causes an explosion which isnt as broad as a missiles, you can tactically choose your target and cause little to almost none damage to the rest. No chemical specialists required for the aftermath, only infantry and airforce units. But you could use similar sized grenades for a bigger detonation, which would be more efficient (because big shell go boom) than carpet bombing, or artillery fire. The Nomad could be great spacial artillery platform if used correctly and modified. Nukes are trash, blue lasers like seriously and make it vertical to the planet not horizontal for less exposure mass. The limited superstracture is a good start though, very nimble thin and albeit horizontal still hard to hit with ground to space artillery.

TLDW: I have low media literacy and missed most of the context clues that would help me understand this movie's world and story. Here is a 17 minute rant about all the things that confused me.

Apparently there is a scene where a human is strangling a robot and it does some gurgling sounds as if it's actually being strangled, that just sounds incredibly dumb. EDIT: hehe you mentioned this later on in the vid :D

Somewhat surprised that "Why use logic" hasn't been taken as a slogan /film production company. Your sanity is noticed and appreciated regardless. Cheers my man

For some reason the thing that stuck with me was near the end where the dude with factory and robot lady friend that gets killed and her having a massive hole in her head and wondering if that was the kink that kept their relationship going.

Wow. I finally found it. The comment section with every non paid internet film critic who "doesn't go to the movies anymore because nothing is worth watching" but will still complain about every single new movie as if they watched it, and will act as if the movies was made entirely by flying monkeys, from the set design, to the writing, to the direction, to the acting, and will act as if they've already won multiple awards in every category of film, so they obviously have the supposed expertise to explain why this movie is so dogshit, but really, they just watch movie reviews on KZfaq in their basement all day, they have no real experience writing, directing, acting, producing, or working on a film set in any capacity really, so they'll instead talk about an explained plot point in the movie, but act as it wasn't explained in any shape or form, and then get mad if someone points that out to them, and say the movie should have made it more obvious, that it's really something to see an entire comment section full of these jokers, this guy should be proud he's found such a wonderful audience of like minded individuals

The functional immortality thing is a good point. They could have used that as the main reason this girl's power was a huge threat and it would have made this movie a bit closer to believable. They also should have had the robots identical looking to help emphasize why they are killed on sight. I guess they were afraid of getting sued by the company who owns bladerunner or something.

Never clicked so fast

I'm pretty sure that making the robots basically the same as humans but still easily identifiable is a plot device. It seems like it's supposed to communicate that there is no real reason to draw a hard line between the two and that they can't hide

I love the beginning of the movie when you have that seal commando team emerging from the sea to covertly infiltrate the island, but then NOMAD is just floating around shining its massive laser pen on the ground from ORBIT (don't even get me started on why it even has to do that, or whether it was even or orbit or not) that makes a loud BBRRR noise and literally no one at this super secret underground Base even saw them coming lol.

Hmm yes, angy beep boops

I would really like to see someday a movie like this but portraying the robots more like the Geth in Mass Effect 2, so alien and emotionless yet understandable and sympathetic

I'm not even gonna talk about robots that are eating, smoking, crying but Alphie one of the greatest creation protected by only a couple soldiers and an old lady? The Nomad that is a 1 trillion project but with a security system weaker than the one that is in my house etc. The US Army is entering in the New Asia and nobody is noticing it until they are under their nose? Running bombs ? These and many more moments completely ruined this movie!

So the robots are a thinly veiled analogy for perceptually marginalized Differentiated Ethnic Groups? Gosh, how mind-bendingly original.

Kinda surprised they didn't make the excuse that the 'weapon also needs to mature so it has to be in a growing child robot's body' or something to excuse the child shtick - there were so many options they coulda BSed together! It's strange but it seems like this was a really awesome movie concept that got absolutely neutered by some really stupid ass (or lack of) story beats

What kind of plan is to make your immediate weapon a child?! Like they made a weapon they needed right then. That won't be at her full potential till she's a adult. It'd make more sense to make a few adult soldiers. Or not even put it in a robot at all! Put it in a laptop and carry it round in a bag. Make it a crystal ball you talk to.

Agreed. So many plot holes in this movie. Almost too many to mention. The dumbest was probably sending in a tank force to neutralise the AI base, when they could have just nuked it from orbit. Also, when they commandeer the moon shuttle and fly it toward the most hi-tech, expensive, and critical military structure on all creation, the American military don't decide to just blow it out of the sky? Instead, they allow it to dock?!?!

I definitely feel a lack of emotional impact when every scene has me thinking "Well that was stupid, why would it ever work like that?"

I recommend checking Automata (2014). It too has a human trying to protect a robot child in a futuristic world but it actually makes sense and is well written... plus the "child" is not human looking at all but an evolution of the AI and robot race.

Thanks for a realistic review of this film. People are desperate for anything that is not Disney or Sony franchise IP vomit. It makes them overlook obvious flaws in a movie like this. This movie seems to be just another version of cynical tough guy has to help child or girl that is the most important thing in the world and finds his humanity again. Please notice that the bad guys are wh*** Americans and the good guys are not, and the bad guys are entirely bad and the good guys are entirely good.