In my impression, many movies like to shoot in Southeast Asian countries, especially Vietnam and Myanmar.
Recalling the films that took place in these countries, Hong Kong films include the classic "Blood on the Street", "Oriental Condor" and "The True Color of Heroes 3 Sunset Song", while in European and American films, Stallone's "First Blood" 4" is a very impressive typical Hollywood production.
Because Southeast Asian countries are located in a mixed climate zone of tropical monsoon climate and tropical rainforest climate, the vegetation there is dense, but the economy is underdeveloped, which directly causes the barren life of the local residents. At the junction of Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, the world is called In the "Golden Triangle", drug dealers are rampant and disordered due to lack of supervision.
European and American films like the mysterious area of the "Golden Triangle" very much, so in the film "Artificial Monster" released at the end of 2020, the place where the story takes place is placed in the "Golden Triangle".
Like our domestic director Ding Sheng, the director of the film "Man-made Monsters", Mark Toya, was a well-known commercial director before becoming a director. The difference is that after entering the film industry, Ding Sheng was keen on action movies, while Mark Toya is a fan of science fiction.
In the next few years, Mark Toya will also have two sci-fi films, "The Last Yuvi" and "Alien Objects and People".
From the title of "Artificial Monster" alone, it is easy to cause misunderstandings to the audience. The conventional monsters we understand are nothing more than ever-changing monsters, but the so-called monsters in the film are actually artificial robots.
The story of the film takes a secret cooperation between a US military company and CIA agents as a trigger point. The robots jointly manufactured by the two parties are planned to be put into the "Golden Triangle" area for testing, where drug dealers will be used as experimental objects.
However, the CIA's intelligence is not accurate, and the robots made by military companies are not too controlled, so the entire experimental operation has a major error.
During the period, a group of medical teams who were keen on public welfare came. In their inner world, it was very similar to the classic lines in "First Blood 4": Do they think that everyone in the world gets along like neighbors?
As a result, their group became the target of robot slaughter, and the former US Navy SEAL members were secretly hidden among the local residents, and they were slapped in the face of the CIA's intelligence accuracy.
Among the four robots that were airdropped, they all used artificial intelligence technology to create two sets of control systems in their bodies. Among them, the No. 4 robot turned on another system by itself because it lost the control panel, which also made it have its own of ideology, and repeatedly wanted to escape human control.
The film is more than 130 minutes long, most of which are scenes of robot slaughter and the escape of the hunted. It shuttles back and forth between the vast rainforest and rocks. Except for fighting scenes and gun battle scenes, there are many other redundant scenes, which is reasonable. It can be said that it can be simplified completely.
Speaking of which, artificial intelligence also uses bad routines. Before this, countless blockbusters have successfully exerted artificial intelligence to the limit, so as far as this "Artificial Monster" is concerned, the possibility of standing out is very small, but the film still has Must be meaningful.
After robot No. 4 has its own ideology, it can finally communicate with humans and ask questions about what life is.
When the CIA commander walks out of the office nonchalantly at the end of the film, the film leaves us with the question of who is more terrifying than artificial intelligence and evil human nature. 【END】
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