Singularity [DVD] [2018]

Yet another “AI” becoming self-aware and deciding in a megabit that humanity is the problem, only fit for “Termination” or to become batteries to power the “Matrix” - only this one is the cheapo budget version where the production/direction really made little effort to portray a world a century after armageddon.I hope John Cusack did this just in passing through the studio and just for expenses because it is not worthy: he’s a plank. The younger actoids: Jeannine Michèle Wacker and Julian Schaffner, do their best to carry what little there is of a story but they’re not backed up by good direction and the production is all together sloppy, half-cocked and unconvincing.On the plus side, it’s quite cheap now.

I love almost all sci-fi and find it difficult to say bad things about a sci-fi film, however... this film is bad in so many ways that I decided to point out just a couple of them, spoilers perhaps if you want to call them that, but it is hard to spoil such a badly made film.97 years after almost all humans are killed in a war of annihilation two people are seen walking through a field of what looks like a crop of wheat with lines in the crop for tractor tyres to drive along. Humans are few in number, there's no civilisation, no industry, and yet there's farmers with tractors using fuel to grow crops... Utter rubbish.A young woman's thoughts are heard.. she's thinking about how she was once told she'd possibly meet a robot that is so much like a human that she wouldn't know it wasn't human, and that she's already been with one and she didn't know it wasn't human... Then, only a few minutes later in the film, someone else tells the robot that he is the only one, he's unique... so if he is unique then no one would think it might be possible to meet one, since only one person had at that point. If there were many of them I could understand why people would say that it might be possible to meet one, if it were frequent enough to be spoken of. But for there to only be one... such a rare event would not be cause for people to expect it to maybe happen to them one day... Utter rubbish!!If I've spoilt the film for you then I've done you a favour, it's rubbish. It's a shame really though because this story has potential to be made into an amazing film in my opinion. The director really wasted this one.

I'm quite happy with this film actually. It's quite well thought out. Quite plausible. A pleasant surprise considering the huge amount of negative reviews, which do make me wonder if the producer upset some guy in a chatroom lol!It's unsual for me to praise the absence of a thing, but l'm delighted there was zero wokeness about this film, just pure storytelling.

This film sits on well-trodden sci-fi ground, and yet very annoyingly gets the basic stuff wrong.I am quite annoyed at the useless machines.In one scene an old record is played on a phonograph, an obviously not-natural sound you say, machine gives it a cursory glance then buggers off. Now I could forgive this if it was Kronos protecting the plan, but then the protagonist would be like "that was unusually easy".But the worst bit is the ending by farUsing what can be guessed from the name only, the film has a strong start, the destruction seemed a little bit pointless (chemical munitions and large robots to kill us? We're fragile creatures) - but I can forgive, I really liked the idea rather than an Asimov style "benevolent protector" a machine seeing itself as an evolution of us. This is hallowed Sci-Fi ground and has provided so much to ethics and philosophy; but this wasn't played out at all.But I'm not disappointed by nebulous ideas of a film I can imagine bits of - I know I am no writer, I am a reader or a watcher, so I shall fault this on what it is, not what it could be:----"spoilers"----You wouldn't see this crap coming:Another useless machine is like "evacuation not possible, impact certain" then is wrong and engages a hyperdriveFor a good 2/3rds of the film I've been thinking "this is going to be about the power of love and "what is humanity" isn't it?" - it is.There are plenty of other reviews but for such a superb and deep concept which has provided huge amounts of material to ethics and philosophy this could be so much more. The incompetence is what annoys me the most.

Not nearly as bad as the reviews make out.I liked the FX and the general idea, and the casting was great - for me the letdown was the cheesiness of the voice-over.It could have done with being a bit more intense generally, but for easy-watching it was a perfectly decent Sci-Fi movie.