The Machine

"They rise. We fall."

2013 1h 32m EN

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★5.9TMDB · 904

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Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.

“They rise. We fall.”

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Cast

Caity Lotz
Ava
Toby Stephens
Vincent McCarthy
Denis Lawson
Thomson
Sam Hazeldine
James
Pooneh Hajimohammadi
Suri
Jonathan Byrne
Tim
Jade Croot
Mary
John-Paul Macleod
Paul Dawson (as John Paul Macleod)

Credits

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Director: Caradog W. James
Writers: Caradog W. James
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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MONEY

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Shot for just $1.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 21% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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ERA

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Released 13 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Caradog W. James, shot by Nicolai Brüel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Tom Raybould. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Matt Platts-Mills shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Caity Lotz and Toby Stephens and Denis Lawson carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "They rise. We fall.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Caradog W. James directs. Nicolai Brüel behind the camera. Tom Raybould scores. Matt Platts-Mills cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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1Shot for just $1.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Earned back only 21% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 13 years ago.
4Directed by Caradog W. James, shot by Nicolai Brüel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Tom Raybould. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Matt Platts-Mills shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Caity Lotz and Toby Stephens and Denis Lawson carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "They rise. We fall.".
9IMDB entry: tt2317225 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Nicolai Brüel
Original score: Tom Raybould
Editing: Matt Platts-Mills
Production design: Erik Rehl
Costume design: Chrissie Pegg
Runtime: 92 min · 1h 32m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,500,000
Box office: $314,131
Return: 21% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Machine (2013)

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Reno2016-12-24
★ 5/10
Creating an artificial intelligence, but its intelligence beyond expected's the issue. Maybe the films about artificial intelligence that were made in the last 5 years might outnumber to those were made before that for centuries. Especially there are lots of B movies on this theme and some of them surpassed the film critics and the film fanatics' expectations. Here is another one, but this is a British film. Though one thing I don't understand is, in all these films they make the same mistakes. I mean the film characters recognising the AI as one of us which leads to a major disaster. Sets in the future, when the Chinese aggression towards the Taiwan made the west, especially Britain to counteract them in the region, they decide to build a most advanced AI. But when the scientist creates beyond what the military needed, the conflict of interest surface among them. From this, who gains what, and how the story ends comes in the latter part. Initially I liked it, but not the progression. It led nowhere, but the same crumble and a conflict between the man and the machine. I'm not saying the film was bad, but I blame the overcrowded films on this theme. The filmmakers have to start to think a different kind of storyline. Going advance like what AIs can do in the field than the initiation programmes which is too old for now and onwards. So that's where I disliked it, but not hated it. I hope you enjoyed it better than me or would do if you yet to try. 5/10
Gustavo SANTIAGO2017-11-01
★ 3/10
A disaster ... the effects are good, but the plot is very forced and closed ... very trite the subject of AI that becomes human ... there are other titles even recent that far exceed it, starting with "Yo Robot" (to which does not even reach the heels)!