Synopsis
In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.
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Cast
- Guy PearceDavid Carmichael
- Matilda LutzJane
- Travis FimmelMarlon Veidt
- Jonathan ArisJoseph Veidt
- Colin SalmonHawthorne
- Jóhannes Haukur JóhannessonMr Russell
- Ned DennehyGeorge
- Antonia Campbell-HughesJaden
- Olwen FouéréRoyale
- Maggie CroninAuthoritative Woman
Recommendations
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Polygon
The ways Zone 414 lifts from its predecessors, borrowing elements from character development to costuming to questions about the utilitarianism of our physical bodies, denies it identifiable or entertaining qualities of its own. - 42
The Playlist
While riffing off almost every film about androids that came before it — “A.I.,” “Ex Machina,” etc. — Baird’s film fails to add anything new to the sub-genre, creating a derivative pastiche of better works that often looks visually compelling but collapses under an underwritten script. - 40
Screen Rant
Offering no individuality of its own, Zone 414 barely manages to stay afloat with its oft-repeated tropes, which come to a listless, foreseeable end. - 40
The Guardian
The script feels completely devoid of ideas about what the future of AI might look like. But what it does prove is that Pearce adds a basic layer of credibility to any film simply by showing up.
