Out of control technology.

Rating: 9/10 (7 May 2015)

What a movie! Another high-tech extravaganza. It required an army of people to produce it. And the result? A highly imaginative science fiction story. The story poses a simple question; What is one to do when artificial intelligence goes berserk and wants to destroy the entire planet? It's similar to the Frankenstein story, except taken to an astronomically higher level. And this monster has infinitely greater destructive power. And whereas the Frankenstein monster had the trappings of being human (although he was not), the creation in this movie is entirely non-organic, making it incredibly more lethal. What makes the story even more fascinating is how it takes an consortium of superheroes to finally bring matters under control. To that point, it is all-out war, with the population of the globe caught in the middle. It is total pandemonium on a worldwide scale. Yet the renegade AI can't be assigned total blame for causing the mayhem. It happened through carelessness, not malicious intent. The AI was already programed; that better care was not taken to prevent what happens is entirely attributable to the human factor.