Automata
| Movie | |
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| German title | Automata |
| Original title | Autómata |
| Country of production |
Spain Bulgaria USA Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Gift of Ibáñez |
| script | Gabe Ibáñez, Igor Legarreta |
| production |
Antonio Banderas , Sandra Hermida , Danny Lerner , Les Weldon |
| music | Zacarías M. de la Riva |
| camera | Alejandro Martínez |
| cut | Sergio Rozas |
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Automata is a Spanish - Bulgarian - American - Canadian , dystopian science fiction film from 2014 by Gabe Ibáñez , who also wrote the script in part. Antonio Banderas , Birgitte Hjort Sørensen and Dylan McDermott can be seen in the leading roles, with Banderas' ex-wife Melanie Griffith in a supporting role . In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on March 14, 2015 as part of the Fantasy Film Festival .
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In the future the earth will be almost uninhabitable, the last people will live huddled together in miserable conditions. Since a lot of jobs have become too dangerous, humanoid robots are used everywhere, especially those from ROC Robotics Corporation. So that the robots do not become dangerous under any circumstances, two unchangeable protocols have been implanted into them: 1. They are forbidden to injure a living being or to allow the injury. 2. They are forbidden to change themselves or one another.
Nevertheless, insurance agent Jacq Vaucan is assigned a case in which police officer Sean Wallace reports that he had to destroy a massively modified robot that was repairing itself. Breaking the second protocol is considered impossible, and although Wallace was under the influence of drugs at the time and Vaucan's supervisor Robert Bold is pushing for a quick deal, Vaucan is trying to find out who changed the robot.
The investigation also weighs heavily on Vaucan's relationship with his pregnant wife Rachel. Nevertheless, he cannot be dissuaded. He succeeds in using a robot illegally converted for various sex practices, "Cleo", the creator Dr. To locate Dupré. Although she is not responsible for the manipulation of the first robot, she uses the undestroyed parts of his bio-chip in Cleo. The robot then begins to repair itself and show other signs of autonomy. While Vaucan and Dupré discuss the event, she is shot. Vaucan manages to escape, which is mainly operated by Cleo.
Vaucan wakes up injured in the desert a few kilometers from the city. With him are Cleo and other robots. They try to help Vaucan but refuse to return to town. Eventually Vaucan has to give in and is taken further into the desert by the robots.
Meanwhile, Dominic Hawk, Bold's supervisor, steps in. He wants the investigation to end and all parts of the first robot returned. Wallace is tasked with it. In the desert he soon comes across Vaucan and the robots. But Wallace lets the situation escalate until Vaucan kills him. Dejected, Vaucan moves on into the desert with Cleo and the remaining robot.
The three arrive at a remote station near a former nuclear power station, which is located on a canyon. Beyond that, the ionizing radiation becomes too intense for people. In the station they meet the person who made the changes on the first robot - another robot whose protocol was suspended spontaneously. This robot convinces Vaucan that the robots are now alive and to ensure their survival they have to go to the radioactive zone. Before they leave, they make an insectoid robot and fix a car so Vaucan can drive back into town.
Meanwhile, Rachel gave birth to her and Vaucan's daughter, was kidnapped by Hawk's henchman Vernon Conway, and taken to the desert with Bold. When Bold struggles against Conway, he is killed. Following Vaucan and the robots, Conway and his assistants with Rachel and daughter arrive at the station just as they have the first robot set across the canyon. The henchmen begin to destroy the robots when Vaucan returns. The final argument ensues in which Conway and his assistants are killed. Cleo and the insectoid robot move to the radioactive zone, Vaucan and family go to the sea.
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"Gabe Ibáñez presents a number of exciting (if not entirely new) ideas on the subject of artificial intelligence and his film also looks damn stylish - but the clichéd human figures and the confused conspiracy plot pull 'Autómata' down."
Web links
- Automata in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Automata . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 160 V).
- ↑ a b Automata at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed February 27, 2016
- ↑ a b Automata at Metacritic , accessed February 27, 2016
- ↑ Automata in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Automata review on filmstarts.de