Review of Automata (2011) by Ken L — 14 Oct 2014

While producing enough stunning landscapes and engrossing visuals, this movie rivals Ridley Scott in terms of how masterfully this very cliche ridden tale is executed. Automata centers around Jacq Vaucan (Antonio Banderas) a man who is wrapped up in a robot evolution as a group of them tries to escape their human overlords and find peace.

You've seen this story done a hundred times over at this point but its Gabe Ibanez's high level of production and direction that carries this movie above the rest. Also the scene with "the first one" and Jacq is probably one of the best monologues of the year.

Totally worth the $7 rental and probably will end up finding its way into my movie collection when it gets released on home video.