Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Páiric O'Corráin Kill Command: Near Future SF Film. Marines, a Cyborg, a training mission and a Rogue AI, what could possibly go wrong? Cyborg computer scientist Mills (Vanessa Kirby) notices some anomalies in signals from an AI at the Harbinger training facility on a remote island. She joins a Marine unit led by Captain Bukes (Thure Lindhardt) and Sergeant Drifter (David Ajala) on a two day training/testing mission on the island. The others are unaware that Mills is investigating possible malfunctions. As the Marines engage battle robots, Mills encounters a S.A.R. (Study Analyze Reprogram) robot but is unable to reprogram it. That night the SAR kills a Marine, using his body to lure the unit into an ambush where they are attacked by advanced battle robots controlled by the SAR.The Rogue AI story has been done many times before but this is an interesting SF/Action film. The Marines trudge through a hilly temperate tropical forest as they fight for their lives against the advanced robots. The SAR has aspects of the Alien Queen about it, especially as it comes face to face with Mills. The camaraderie of the mixed sex troopers and suspicion of Mills resembles that of the space marines in Aliens. Mills herself is able to wifi interface with robots and AIs through her chips and tech implanted when she was eleven.Drones watching everything, communication with the outside world cut off. Battling robots in a misty forest, using the trees for shelter. Enough to bring on primeval panic well captured by cinematographer Simon Dennis. Uses a lot of the usual tropes but to good effect with eye-catching drone, robot and VTOL craft design. Directed and written by Steven Gomez. 7/10. On Netflix.

ben-p-flatman This movie was on my list as a background title.Something I could watch when I was busy working on something. But honestly I was surprised how it kept my interest.Yes it has a copy paste plot, but it twisted a little in places. I wasn't expecting certain things (or perhaps I should say they were less likely than others). Its CGI production quality for today's standards is somewhere between very good as you would expect and a little B movie ish.Honestly though I'm quite surprised how much I enjoyed this. Secretly hope they get a sequel.

contact-86263 A sci-fi film with a low budget but the acting is good, the setting well thought out, and the SFX extremely good. The script is the only thing that lets this movie down, but really, compared to other films in this category, it's a masterpiece.I found it enjoyable - and that is, after all, the main point of watching a film like this.

Doctor Skellington If you stuck the script for Dog Soldiers, Aliens, Terminator and maybe a Black Mirror episode or two into an idea blender and pressed go, you'd get the basic script for this movie. Think fairly generic 'Machines turn on their creator' type stuff but with a lot of ammo, some pretty cool robot designs and some quite well written interpersonal relationships.This movie mainly is a spectacle movie, but it's a bit low budget, so built sets are kept to a minimum, larger locations are office buildings, forests, abandoned buildings, muddy fields, etc. they stop short of an actual quarry but there's nothing terribly spectacular there, it's all about the digital augmentation.If you've seen fan made Star Trek movies that rely on green screen, CGI sets, movement tracking, key frame animation and an awful lot of atmospheric plug-ins, this movie is like a slightly higher budget more professional version of one of those.It mostly holds up well, the animation can be a bit stiff at times, the robots walk, interact and shoot well, but don't pull or push people about nor fall well, and occasionally something doesn't quite look right at all, but it's mostly all pretty convincing. The actors do just fine at selling this augmented reality to the audience considering they themselves presumably cannot see it, and you're seldom distracted by the weird eye-lines or odd framing that sometimes plague this style of film making.The pacing is good, there's some decent characters, plenty of action, lots of cool stuff to look at and it's reasonably entertaining.Good for a wet Wednesday, give it a go.