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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Nick Howells

Companion review: this comedy horror on the perils of AI might be blunt, but it’s a bloody hoot

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.

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