I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

THE BRAIN MACHINE is one of those single location thrillers in which a group of voluntary participants come together in a research institute to take part in a scientific experiment, with horrifying results. It's not really a single location film all the way through as there are plenty of exterior scenes and padding that doesn't really add a whole lot to anything. I liked the way that the film's title and trappings attempt to bring in then-modern computer technology into the story even though computers have very little to do with what actually takes place.This also happens to be one of the dullest films I can remember watching in recent months. Films made in the 1970s either tend to be really, really good, or really, really bad. THE BRAIN MACHINE falls into the latter category as it's just so cheap and amateurish in nature. The first half of the picture is all back story, set up, and exposition, and the second half is all tumult that just doesn't ring true. Add in plenty of histrionic acting and a generally dated feel and you have a film that's really not worth your time.

"The Brain Machine" is one of those action films with relatively little action and lots of "filler" sequences between the action scenes. But that's OK in this case, because what we get is intriguing filler. At times endearing filler....entertaining filler....but above all intriguing filler. This is also one of those films in which you don't really know what's going on a good deal of the time, or even most of the time. And at times you don't even know who some of the characters are supposed to be (antagonists? PROtagonists? NEUTRALS??). But that's OK in this case, since what is on the screen is interesting even when it's incomprehensible. "Brain Machine" keeps your attention and gets you to think. I like the way Joy N. Houk, Jr. mixes "modernistic" and "postmodern" elements. The whole production, from a design point of view, has a "modernistic" orientation (obsessive use of the color blue in the decor, the appearance of abstract expressionist paintings as wall murals, the overall sleek and clean look, etc.). Yet the storytelling style and characterization are decidedly POSTmodern, i.e., ambiguous, amorphous, and ill-defined. "Brain Machine" tells the stories of a group of disturbed individuals living in a disturbed, uncertain universe. The film may be more than thirty years old, yet in some respects it is quite contemporary........

Ouch, what a painfully BORING Sci-Fi movie! And that's especially saddening because the opening 15 minutes were so action-packed and full of potential! During the intro, we follow a bunch of nervous security officers and hired hit men as they chase a doctor who escaped from a mysterious laboratory with a briefcase full of top-secret files. As he's about to reveal the supposedly horrible & inhuman events that take place in the lab, he's executed. Figures… From then on, the 'action' swifts back and forth between two locations, the aforementioned laboratory and the rural mansion of a corrupt senator (or something), and it quickly becomes clear that the experiments are actually the complete opposite of disturbing. More like dull, pointless and vague. Scientists selected four random persons without living relatives and it's really really really really important that they speak the truth even though a giant machine reads the content of their minds, anyway. They all hide dark secrets from their pasts and people suffer when get revealed; yet I fail to see how these tests could ever result in a humanity-threatening device. Perhaps I missed something, but I doubt it. The interactions between the patients and doctors are even less interesting to follow, as really none of them have personalities. So basically, "The Brain Machine" just handles about a bunch of lame people living in an awfully decorated room. The film also could have been half an hour shorter if it weren't for a THOUSAND stagnant shots of buildings! The relocations from the lab to the villa and vice versa are indicated EVERY SINGLE TIME by a five-second shot of the places. Either the makers really needed the padding or they just assumed that all Sci-Fi viewers are morons unable to notice a change of location by themselves. Staring at a forsaken pool with a mansion in the background for the tenth time in only five minutes becomes quite annoying, I assure you. James Best's performance as the reverend with mental issues is rather decent, but one man definitely can't save this thing from being an absolute waste of time. Avoid!

I saw this on VHS under its AKA Grey Matter. Going into it, I wasn't sure what it was about, and having watched it I'm still not entirely sure.There's a theft of files at a government research facility, and someone in an airplane turns around when he learns of the theft.Four people participate in what they think is an experiment having to do with population control and pollution, or something. They're kept in uniforms in a room which will get progressively smaller to represent a growing population. The scientists in charge emphasize the importance of the participants telling the truth. It's clear they all have secrets.Meanwhile, some things seem to be going wrong. A technician dies after touching a hose. Some of the cameras don't work. A guard is mysteriously sinister.The computer begins asking personal questions, which the surprised scientists repeat to the participants. Sometimes while they're sleeping they appear to be electrocuted and have visions.In the end, there's a television report in which a newscaster reports falsely on the study while two apparently powerful men watch the report on TV and comment on it.