Automata
Well, this was disappointing, to say the least. The actors are all solid at the very least, Antonio Banderas gets to play a fairly interesting character, and the robots are fantastic. Their characterization is pretty good, and the effects work is damn near flawless. There's also some interesting ideas being tossed around, and a couple of scenes are downright inspired.
However, the film is absolutely choked with things that are lifted from other films, and the characters outside of Antonio and the robots are all either stereotypes or don't amount to much. This is especially bad with the pregnant wife, who only exists to provide some utterly forced and unneeded tension in the second half of the film. And then everything just dives off a cliff once the paper thin antagonists enter the picture. They're f**king cartoonishly evil, and utterly trite given the setting.
This movie could have been so much more, and pissed it all away.
