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Sorry, this movie sucks

A Masterpiece!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

AUTOMATIC is a low-rent sci-fi B-movie starring French martial artist Olivier Gruner, a guy who had all the acting ability of a hunk of cheese but who knew how to kick when it came to the fight scenes. This is an incredibly cheap-looking movie that sees Gruner playing an android who rebels against his corrupt creators and is forced to defend himself from a hit squad.The entire film takes place in a dimly-lit building with the characters prowling the corridors and engaging in some low-rent fight scenes. The choreography is poor and the script worse, and it doesn't help that the cast is filled with actors giving laissez-faire performances which hardly fill the viewer with confidence.Throughout AUTOMATIC, the scriptwriter rips off many other, better movies. The single-location stalking sequences are reminiscent of the basic premise of DIE HARD, while of course THE TERMINATOR hangs over everything with the presence of androids (although the movie doesn't feature much of the cool robotic effect stuff you saw generally in '90s B-movies). There are also lots of scenes inspired by ALIENS. Inevitably, this movie can't hold a candle to any of those classics and is a completely forgettable piece of popcorn fare.

I was a huge fan of Nemisis and this motivated me to rent and watch this flick. It's not bad although it's not a patch on Oliver Gruner's previous great sci-fi action film. The good? John Glover is good as always, a role he will excel at in countless different films and TV shows. Love the gag where the business executive is talking on the videophone about projecting family values unaware that his gorgeous naked teenage hookers are helping themselves to his champagne in the background. Gruner is OK, Daphne Ashbrook is gorgeous as she also was in the Dr Who movie. Love the fake Robocop style advert at the beginning, just playing so blatantly on the fears of middle class America. Must say I didn't see the twist coming at all, it was well played. Lovely ending too, you wonder what will become of these two but it's filled with hope.Overall it lacks the philosophy of Nemisis although it does give it a go, what I really liked about Nemises was how it combined way OTT and imaginative shoot-em-up with touching musings about humanity. The teams of mercenaries hunting the heroes are dreadful clichés, especially the female team leader who is so obviously a ripoff of Vasquez in Aliens. Somehow it all just doesn't hang together as much as it should but for a blatantly low budget sci-fi action flick it does a great deal with what it has to work with. Altogether I'd say it's no Blade Runner but certainly a passable way to spend a couple of hours

Olvier Gruner stars as J269 a robot who becomes the target of a group of mercenaries sent to destroy him after he kills a man trying to rape Nora Rochester (Daphne Ashbrook), fearing bad press Goddard Marx orders the machine dead in this well made yet very routine rip off of Robocop and The Terminator. Automatic however does have good actionscenes.

Oliver Grunner stars in this very entertaining movie about cyborgs and the effect they have on a futuristic society. John Glover stars as Goddard Marx, the president of RobGen; an artificial human production company. This IS the future and these things or androids are as common as automobiles and are used for factory labor, security, entertainment and even as sexual surrogate partners. Everything is fine at the company until a RobGen executive tries to savagely rape a female secretary named Nora Rochester (well played by Daphne Ashbrook). Oliver (he plays multiple roles very well in this movie!) interrupts the attack (he IS programmed to protect life, after all!) and in the course of the encounter accidently kills the out of control corporate man. What follows after this is a mad struggle for survival and escape as Goddard Marx calls in a special human merc unit led by a Major West (well played by Jeff Kober). There is lots of good special effects action as well as a few very interesting surprises in the plot. Grunner is always at his acting best and carries the role of J269, etc. well. Add this one to your collections of movies on the science fiction shelf! Good movie!!