Zone 414

Name: Zone 414
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: September 3, 2021
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Colin Salmon, Fionnula Flanagan, Guy Pearce, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson

2021

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: September 3, 2021 | R

Starring: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Colin Salmon, Fionnula Flanagan, Guy Pearce, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Jonathan Aris, Jorin Cooke, Maggie Cronin, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouere, Travis Fimmel

Summary: Zone 414 is a dangerous, dark colony of humanoids known as "the city of robots.” The colony's creator hires the private investigator David Carmichael (Guy Pearce) to track down his missing daughter. David teams up with Jane (Matilda Lutz), a highly advanced A.I. equipped with the same technology of her fellow humanoids, but with all theZone 414 is a dangerous, dark colony of humanoids known as "the city of robots.” The colony's creator hires the private investigator David Carmichael (Guy Pearce) to track down his missing daughter. David teams up with Jane (Matilda Lutz), a highly advanced A.I. equipped with the same technology of her fellow humanoids, but with all the emotions, feelings and dreams of a human being. They travel through the city uncovering clues and a crime that calls into question the origins and true purpose behind the city of artificial humans.… Expand

Director: Andrew Baird

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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Polygon Roxana Hadadi

Sep 8, 2021

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. Read full review

The Playlist Christian Gallichio

Sep 5, 2021

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. Read full review

Screen Rant Debopriyaa Dutta

Sep 4, 2021

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. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Sep 30, 2021

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. Read full review

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andrewbaird

Aug 8, 2022

beautifully made neo-noir
dont understand all the negative reviews
stunning cast and echoes the world of cyber punk

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truerock

Jan 29, 2022

Zone 414 is a science fiction film of the noir-film-noir genre with a twist of steam punk.
I wanted to watch this film to see whatever Travis Fimmel came up with for his Marlon Veidt character - and, I was not disappointed.
The plot is yet another take on android existential angst. For meZone 414 is a science fiction film of the noir-film-noir genre with a twist of steam punk.
I wanted to watch this film to see whatever Travis Fimmel came up with for his Marlon Veidt character - and, I was not disappointed.

The plot is yet another take on android existential angst. For me that is something that never gets old - but, perhaps for some it is difficult to continue probing that metaphysical riddle once again. From my viewpoint it is the question - for others it is a "whatever"... please get to the next car chase scene, relationship conflict, etc.

The concept of androids has been used as a plot device since the 1700s. I remember finding a 1950s science fiction anthology at my local library when I was 10 years old. The philosophical issues it generates has always fascinated me. Obviously, no one is going to deliver any breakthrough insights on something that has been analyzed thousands of times. But Zone 414 generated a fresh angle from my perspective - and I've seen this plot device hundreds of times.

The acting is off-beat. The directing is off-beat. The casting is superb. The story and script are intriguing. The production values are in line with its smaller budget.

Obviously, this is a thinking person's kind of film and does not fit into the purely recreational category.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Oct 23, 2021

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This $5 million budget debut by Baird rivals Villeneuve's remake and its $150 million budget: a B movie that would have held its own very well if it hadn't been ruined by a poorly finished script.

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JLuis_001

Sep 16, 2021

Zone 414 is a film that could perhaps use as a defense, or rather as an attribute that it doesn't look as cheap as its budget might make you think. After all, that may provide it a larger window of attention.
However, in the end, that will turn out to be pointless, because its narrativeZone 414 is a film that could perhaps use as a defense, or rather as an attribute that it doesn't look as cheap as its budget might make you think. After all, that may provide it a larger window of attention.
However, in the end, that will turn out to be pointless, because its narrative attributes are just boring and completely predictable.… Expand

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Dandy-Mr-D

Apr 9, 2022

I like AI powered robots, and I like cyber punk, so it should have been a low bar for this movie to entertain me. It didn't. It was boring, predictable, and all the characters were uninteresting. But what really upset me was how it choose to keep to the brain-dead trend of making robotsI like AI powered robots, and I like cyber punk, so it should have been a low bar for this movie to entertain me. It didn't. It was boring, predictable, and all the characters were uninteresting. But what really upset me was how it choose to keep to the brain-dead trend of making robots EXACTLY like humans. A lot of shows do this now. They make robots look and act exactly like humans to the point that, to use this movie as an example, they cry, they resent their place in life, they hate their jobs, and need a little "me" time to relax and get through the day. Almost nothing seems to separate them from people or makes them different. I think this all lacks imagination and creativity when it comes to AI and robots. It's the lazy way out for science fiction movies as make up artists don't need to do anything drastic, actors don't need to imagine not being a human, and the story writers get to use the word "robot" for their story and call it "science fiction". If we really want to push the concept, then I would ask, If we could design AI or the mechanical figure of it's body, why would we need to make them exactly like us? Why could they not think or look entirely different? Imagine an AI purposefully programmed to love a terrible day; the worse it is, the happier it gets. Or maybe one is programmed to think what is considered ugly is beautiful and vice versa. We could also imagine it's body differently. Why must it have a body with two arms, two legs, and a head? Perhaps it could have 3 arms, 5 legs, the body of an ant, and the head of a cat (actually, don't make that. That sounds creepy) The ideas are endless, and some good science fiction writers have come up with many good ones. The creators of Zone 414 did not and the movie falls into the heap of sci-fi that is labeled for the uninspired, and uncreative.… Expand

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