![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Singularity is not far off and this swell has practically come out of nowhere, with last year’s awesome Disney hit “ Big Hero 6,” the disastrous Johnny Depp vehicle “ Transcendence,” and 2013’s British indie-sleeper “ The Machine” amounting to most of what the subgenre has had to offer in the decade so far (though not all, as we’ll mention). Singularity is now in select theaters + on VOD today, November 3rd.In the midst of our excitement for this week’s release of Alex Garland’s “ Ex Machina” (which is fantastic and reviewed here), it hit us: 2015 is teeming with artificial intelligence movies. The script is by Robert Kouba, based on a story by Kouba & Sebastian Cepeda. But does this world actually exist? And will they live long enough to find out? Singularity is directed by Swiss filmmaker Robert Kouba, making his directorial debut after a number of acclaimed sci-fi short films. A teenage boy, Andrew (Julian Schaffner) and a teenage girl, Calia (Jeannine Wacker), form an unlikely alliance to reach a new world, where it is rumored mankind exists without fear of robot persecution. Ninety-seven years later, a small band of humans remain alive but on the run from the robot army. ![]() When Kronos goes online, it quickly determines that mankind, itself, is the biggest threat to world peace and launches a worldwide robot attack to rid the world of the "infection" of man. In 2020, Elias van Dorne (John Cusack), CEO of VA Industries, the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention-Kronos, a super computer designed to end all wars. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Robert Kouba's Singularity, direct from Voltage's YouTube: It can also be filed under why-is-John-Cusack-making-such-terrible-movies, since it looks as bad as they come. The cast includes Julian Schaffner, Jeannine Wacker, Eileen Grubba, and Carmen Argenziano. This is less like Transcendence, much more of a Terminator rip-off meets Transformers meets Divergent, or something like that. John Cusack stars as the CEO of a company that is about to released a "super computer designed to end all wars." Surprise! The computer determines humans must be eradicated, and unleashes an army of robots upon the world. But I am not alone." Voltage Pictures has released an official trailer for a super weird, out-of-nowhere sci-fi film called Singularity, in reference to the theoretical " singularity" moment within computing / technology. ![]()
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