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Zone 414 - City of Robots

Play trailer 2:05 Poster for Zone 414 - City of Robots R Released Sep 3, 2021 1h 39m Sci-Fi Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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Guy Pearce, Matilda Lutz and Travis Fimmel star in the sci-fi thriller set in Zone 414, a dangerous, dark colony of humanoids known as "the city of robots." The colony's creator (Fimmel) hires private investigator David Carmichael (Pearce) to track down his missing daughter. David teams up with Jane (Lutz), a highly advanced A.I. equipped with the same technology of her fellow humanoids, but with all the emotions, feelings and dreams of a human being. They travel through the city uncovering clues and a crime that calls into question the origins and true purpose behind the city of artificial humans.
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Zone 414 wastes a game Guy Pearce while ill-advisedly begging comparisons with numerous superior sci-fi thrillers.

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Cath Clarke Guardian What a waste of Pearce this movie is, requiring him to chase after baddies in underground car parks and run the gamut of facial expressions from glower to grimace. Rated: 2/5 Sep 30, 2021 Full Review Beatrice Loayza New York Times "Zone 414" isn't a bad-looking film, fittingly apocalyptic, if generically stylized, thanks to cinematography by James Mather. Still, one wonders why this perfunctory techno-noir exists in the first place. Sep 2, 2021 Full Review Kristin Battestella InSession Film Zone 414′s rushed, confusing, science fiction familiarity tries to do too much and will disappoint viewers expecting deeper sociological examination. Apr 19, 2024 Full Review Aaron Phillips But Why Tho? A Geek Community It’s hard to watch Zone 414 without being reminded that are so many other better options for dystopian sci-fi films that create far more depth and engaging stories. Rated: 4/10 Jan 5, 2023 Full Review Todd Gilchrist What To Watch Guy Pearce (Mare of Easttown) struggles with a blue-collar Brooklyn accent while costar Matilda Lutz (Revenge) attempts to wrangle endless reams of expository dialogue in order to make this two-hander feel like something more than a double wank. Rated: 2/5 Oct 2, 2021 Full Review Joel Fisher Battle Royale With Cheese Audiences may very well enjoy the dark and brooding side of Guy Pearce and enjoy the aesthetic pulled from better material, but others may want to find something more original. Sep 13, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Alex M I like AI powered robots, and I like cyber punk, so it should have been a low bar for this movie to entertain me. It didn't. It was boring, predictable, and all the characters were uninteresting. But what really upset me was how it choose to keep to the brain-dead trend of making robots EXACTLY like humans. A lot of shows do this now. They make robots look and act exactly like humans to the point that, to use this movie as an example, they cry, they resent their place in life, they hate their jobs, and need a little "me" time to relax and get through the day. Almost nothing seems to separate them from people or makes them different. I think this all lacks imagination and creativity when it comes to AI and robots. It's the lazy way out for science fiction movies as make up artists don't need to do anything drastic, actors don't need to imagine not being a human, and the story writers get to use the word "robot" for their story and call it "science fiction". If we really want to push the concept, then I would ask, If we could design AI or the mechanical figure of it's body, why would we need to make them exactly like us? Why could they not think or look entirely different? Imagine an AI purposefully programmed to love a terrible day; the worse it is, the happier it gets. Or maybe one is programmed to think what is considered ugly is beautiful and vice versa. We could also imagine it's body differently. Why must it have a body with two arms, two legs, and a head? Perhaps it could have 3 arms, 5 legs, the body of an ant, and the head of a cat (actually, don't make that. That sounds creepy) The ideas are endless, and some good science fiction writers have come up with many good ones. The creators of Zone 414 did not and the movie falls into the heap of sci-fi that is labeled for the uninspired, and uncreative. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/18/24 Full Review Michael D Poor man's Blade Runner. Being a huge fan of the genre I thought this was actually pretty good. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/01/24 Full Review Jason J Kind of meandering, like if someone described Blade Runner to someone else and then asked them to make an opposite 'find the human in the robots' movie. Not bad, but not Blade Runner Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/29/23 Full Review Cristian s Película complicada. En varios aspectos es mala, básicamente un film bajo presupuesto con una idea que ya se hizo varias veces antes de mejor forma, exceso de diálogos e intentos fallidos de debates filosóficos. Por otra parte destaca por cubrir sus falencias, logrando ser entretenida por tener buen ritmo y alguna vuelta de tuerca. ¿Digna de ser vista? Tal vez, eh visto peores. ¿Olvidable? Casi con seguridad. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/19/23 Full Review Chris M It's been done before, but this is a decent journey into cyberpunk. Forget the bad reviews and just watch it for the noir-cyberpunk mashup. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/14/22 Full Review Audience Member Better than the reviews, despite following BLADE RUNNER closely. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Guy Pearce, Matilda Lutz and Travis Fimmel star in the sci-fi thriller set in Zone 414, a dangerous, dark colony of humanoids known as "the city of robots." The colony's creator (Fimmel) hires private investigator David Carmichael (Pearce) to track down his missing daughter. David teams up with Jane (Lutz), a highly advanced A.I. equipped with the same technology of her fellow humanoids, but with all the emotions, feelings and dreams of a human being. They travel through the city uncovering clues and a crime that calls into question the origins and true purpose behind the city of artificial humans.
Director
Andrew Baird
Producer
Martin Brennan, Jib Polhemus, Deborah Kolar, Andrew Baird
Screenwriter
Bryan Edward Hill
Distributor
Saban Films
Production Co
Saban Films, Great Point Media, 23ten, El Ride Productions, Baird Films, Highland Film Group
Rating
R (Language|Disturbing Images|Nudity|Some Drug Use|Violence)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 3, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 3, 2021
Runtime
1h 39m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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