Director: Aaron Mirtes
Year: 2020
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
Plot:
After bringing home a robot from work, a man intending to use the robot as a special household assistant finds that everyone in the house treats the robot inhumanely to the point that it finally decides to revolt against them and the rest of humanity through their shared A.I. units and forces the family to fight back against the uprising.
Review:
This was a decent enough and watchable effort. The main aspect at work here is the sympathetic work on the main robot which garners a tremendous amount of sympathy as the learning-based functions of her trying to do household tasks or general activities that they don’t support. The name-calling and secret bullying they engage in, even though the daughter forms a close bond to it which starts the real fun here as the inadvertent exposures to violence that cause it to snap. As these are wholly reasonable and cause this one some great horror setups of the robot going crazy on the family. These stalking scenes and action-encounters come out quite fun and brutal, offering suspenseful stalking and solid if too CGI-heavy gore for the various encounters. These here are enough to hold this one up overall.
There are some problems here. The biggest factor here is the utterly cliche and completely unrealistic manner in which they bring about the robots’ homicidal manners. Trying to sell the abusive family angle where everyone yells and insults each other seems to bring about far more unlikable and unnatural behavior that puts everything into far more ludicrous territory where they unrealistically incite the robot into action. This takes on unrealistic levels of inciting incident action when the robot learns to lie about what happens to it when it was never exposed to anything like that before, rather it was just emotional abuse and humiliation so how that transpires is quite odd with the rest of the cliche angering setups. Along with the lame low-budget CGI that crops up here, these issues hold this one down.
Overview: **.5/5
A pretty solid if somewhat cliche sci-fi revenge tale, this is certainly watchable in this style but is not much more than that due to the other factors involved in the setup here. Give this a shot if you’re a fan of these low-budget sci-fi thrillers or appreciate the material tackled here, but those with no other interest here should avoid caution.
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