Love, death, robots and a dastardly criminal plan that couldn’t possibly fail (read: definitely will go appallingly wrong)… They’re all here in this punchy (we’re talking the face-smashing type), snappy (the neck-crunching variety) near-future horror dripping with treacle-black comedy.
Just as Trump and the tech uber-barons pledge half a trillion dollars for AI innovation, debut writer-director Drew Hancock gives us a timely, decidedly unsubtle, but wildly entertaining take on the rogue cyborg genre.