Archive

Cool movie. Good visuals for the budget.

I thought the audience rating would be higher for this. I really liked it. Good futuristic premise. Man who's wife died in a car accident tries to bring her back via a robot. He's built three different prototypes, improving on each version. The dynamics between him and the three versions, as well between the robots themselves, playout throughout the movie building to an ending that really got me. Well worth the watch.

Very Bad ending. Rest of movie was great though!

Sadly, I only stumbled across this movie because it features actress Stacy Martin, whom I've previously seen in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1 (2013). The plot of Archive includes well-known elements from multiple science fiction stories told a thousand times before. A male scientist or engineer lives alone in a remote facility, only to be accompanied by a robotic lifeform or a computer with a female persona. Mostly like he is a widower who lost his significant, and possibly children, in a tragic accident, the story will unfold as he grows an emotional attachment to the robotic lifeform or computer as we bear witness to his sad loss through flashbacks. Chaos will ensue at some point before the male protagonist must face the decision of severing the emotional attachment with the technological proxy. Sound familiar? The writer will tweak and adjust each story, but the thread is still present in these dystopian tales.

Really enjoyed this, wasn't expecting the twist at the end, would recommend.

A fresh idea with an interesting turn at the end.

I rarely watch sci-fi but I'm happy I did this one. Very nicely built and executed. I loved it.

Archive honors the great sci-fi visuals of the past and pushes modern sci-fi a little farther into the future.

Poważny, porusza temat świadomości i śmierci. Niewiele się dzieje, ale dobrze zrobiony, całkiem ciekawy, z fajnym zakończeniem. Nawet spoko obejrzeć 2 razy

"Archive", directed by Gavin Rothery, is that rare, small sci-fi sleeper in the vein of "Ex-Machina", "Moon", and "Looper" that deals more with matters of the heart, existential philosophies, and scientific debates concerning artificial intelligence in lieu of mind-bending special effects and stunts. It is a gripping, chilling story with character complexity, an eerie musical score, and a simple, yet suspenseful approach to creating a believable futuristic setting of robots in the midst of heartbreak. It is "Ghost in the Shell" meets "Ghost". Theo James as George is reserved yet believable in his god-like complex, but Stacey Martin as Jules is striking showing more nuanced range of emotions. Death and love are the epicenter of a story that can sometimes suffer from insufficient character background and somewhat muddled pacing, but this is a film that is surely engrossing, thought-provoking, and has a hell of a twist ending.