The Machine

The Machine

They rise. We fall.

201392 min5.9 / 10

A tense sci-fi thriller about the dangers of unchecked AI and military ambition, set in a bleak Cold War dystopia where a programmer's creation spirals beyond his control.

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.

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