FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Tweetienator Autómata (2014) is an underrated dystopian science- fiction thriller. The movie raises some of the same philosophical questions like I Robot or Blade Runner and the like - what defines human life!? Could an artificial "life"-form one day develop something like consciousness and an own personality!? I enjoyed the movie really and I liked Antonio Banderas in this movie a lot. Compared with Blade Runner 2049 Automata is imho the better and more interesting movie, even if the production level cannot compete with the sequel of Blade Runner. If you like dystopian sci-fi I strongly recommend Autómata to get pronto its place on your watchlist.

brppc There is nothing about this film that is worth watching. It starts out somewhat promising, but simply doesn't deliver any sort of satisfying result. The acting feels forced, and the story bogs down in the middle and frustratingly so. Just when things do pick up and there is a promising ending to the film, it brings in several aspects of the story that simply do not tie together. I would not have bothered with rating this film, but I decided to watch it based on the high review number, and I can't let it go.

magnuslhad What happens when machines out evolve us? It is a theme explored since the nineteenth century, and across genres. Automata does a good job of anthropomorphising its robots. Ironically, the main problem is the humans are less well developed. The film wears its Blade Runner influences lightly, and the production design is creditable, but at least in BR the other humans beyond Deckard were also complex and plausible. The bad guys in Automata lack motivations and carry out actions that make no sense. Language is one causal factor: the script has clearly been written by someone whose first language is not English, and so the dialogue is stilted and unnatural. This is fine when it comes from Banderas, as that is natural English for non-native speakers, but placed in the mouths of his boss and antagonists, it draws unwanted attention to itself. The plot falls apart in the end - there is no need to violently confront the robots, other than tick the box for 'shoot out.' Most bizarre of all is the wife presenting the baby to her husband who has been shot, beat up, starved and looks half-dead. Of all the reactions a wife might have to finding her husband in this state, this one was the least likely. It is symptomatic of a tonally inconsistent movie that fails to mine rich thematic potential and is unsure of what it wants to say.

Jeffrey Byrne Cappell This movie was also awesome, it was like Blade Runner in the desert! The future robots do everything. Cops hate robots. Antonio Banderas is an insurance man for robots. Antonio looks for clues, finds ex wife in real life Melanie Griffith Melanie Griffith has face lift. Melanie Griffith gets shot by kids. Antonio is kidnapped by robots. cop comes for Antonio loves robot kills cop. Antonio is drag across desert, with radiation and almost dies. robots get to abounded building. bad guys take Antonio boss and wife with new baby into the desert. Antonio gets drunk with robot and dances. robot make new robot. Bad guys come and shoot out with Antonio. Antonio wins. Antonio lets last robot to the other side of canyon. Antonio and wife, with baby drive away in the desert.