Singularity
Singularity
PG-13 | 24 November 2017 (USA)
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When Elias van Dorne, CEO of the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention, Kronos-a super-computer designed to end all wars-it determines that humans are the biggest threat and launches a worldwide attack on mankind. A small band of survivors must form an unlikely alliance to survive the greatest artificial intelligence threat man will ever know.

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Ceticultsot

Beautiful, moving film.

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Dynamixor

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Nayan Gough

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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Rosie Searle

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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rolandkreml

I watched this because of John Cusack. He has been in some interesting movies. So many holes in this story. So many jr high play "what's my line" pauses. So many inconsistencies. Fight scenes made WWE look real. 2 minutes in I wondered what am I watching. I watched for another 30 min to let it develop, but then realized this is simply bad and getting worse. Could not believe it had a 4 rating. 4 says it has some promise. This a Singularity turd deserving of a single star.

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patrickslusher-60547

I don't understand all the negative reviews on here...I'm going to be a lot more charitable. Because it's obvious that the kids from the high school film class that somehow scored a hundred thousand dollar budget (and spent 98,000 of that on John Cusack) to do this class project have got enormous potential.

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Tss5078

Robots were supposed to make our lives easier, and at first, they did. Despite all the progress humanity made, it wasn't good enough for Elias Van Dorne (John Cusack), who decided robots were the way to salvation. Van Dorne promised his latest program, Kronos, would save the planet, but how? By wiping out all human life, because we are ultimately what is killing Earth. Fast Forward ninty-seven years as Andrew Davis (Julian Schaffner) wakes up in a world he doesn't know. Attempting to find his way, he meets a young girl, who tells him of a place that is free from Kronos, only question is, can they make it there in one piece? On paper this seems like a great story, and for a b-movie, the special effects are pretty remarkable, but that was the only notable thing about this film. The whole plot really doesn't make much sense, I mean why would Van Dorne want to destroy humanity and live alone forever as part of a computer program? The cast is lead by newcomer, Julian Schaffner, who shows a lot of inexperience but also a lot of potential. I think it's a good thing for a young actor to start out in a film like this, because he can gain his experience in something relatively small and unknown, before moving on to bigger and better things. As for John Cusack, I usual enjoy his films, but in this case he was just terrible. Elias Van Dorne is a character without feeling or purpose, just an evil button pusher, who loves the sound of his own voice, a complete waste of Cusack's talent. The bottom line, Singularity has it moments, but there are too many slow points and too much inexperience seeping through for it to be something I would ever watch again or recommend over hundreds of better choices.

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townsnation

There is so much bad here that I will start with the good. This is a film you watch in the off chance that you are stuck in an elevator and begin to play worst films ever. When someone brings up Singilarity, you will immediately become friends.This film is told in three parts. The opening with overcrowded Mega cities and robots seemed promising. However, there is no backstory on why wars are being waged or who is fighting whom.The middle part doesn't exactly make sense.The AI kills 8 Billion people over night. It then spends near 100 years and over an hour of story time searching for stragglers and El Dorado sorry Aurora. The AI spends considerable resources on this remnant of humanity. It's never really established why, or what all that other robo-tech used to kill the first 8 Billion is doing.The third phase is that it's revealed that Aurora is a different planet. The heroine has fallen for a Trojan Horse Adaptive Android who was created to infiltrate, find Aurora and destroy the last human city. Welp, the heroine ignores that existential conundrum and says she cannot go to Aurora without the Android. The space ship leaves. Armed with the coordinates to Aurora the John Cusick powered AI sends a fleet to purge humanity. Movie ends.That's the highlights. There is stiff acting, as well as a droning musical score that was likely created in Apple'e Garage Band software. The lighting is spotty. What suckers you into the film is the John Cusack and Carmen Argenziano billing until you realize that Cusack is just mailing it in. Cusack used to be a promising young actor. Now you pine for his sister's IS Cellular commericials. The other atttractive thing is the premise. However the execution is a complete fail.Lastly, I look forward to hearing about the amazing stories Julian Schanffner tells his Uber passengers about his brief fling in acting. He was simply the word that describes five notches below horrible.Watch the film and be inspired to write a review. It's the minimum recompense you are due for your time.

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