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8 April 1995 (South Korea)
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Wired for action. Programmed to defend. Determined to survive more
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Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks...
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Robots in disguise...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Olivier Gruner | ... | J269 | |
| Daphne Ashbrook | ... | Nora Rochester | |
| John Glover | ... | Goddard Marx | |
| Jeff Kober | ... | Major West | |
| Dennis Lipscomb | ... | Raymond Hammer | |
| Stanley Kamel | ... | Seth Barker | |
| Penny Johnson | ... | Julia Rodriguez | |
| Annabelle Gurwitch | ... | Gloria Takamatsu | |
| Troy Evans | ... | Buck James | |
| Marjean Holden | ... | Epsilon Leader | |
| Raymond Fitzpatrick | ... | Eugene Dibbs | |
| Jeffrey D. Sams | ... | Harry | |
| Michael D. Weatherred | ... | Glenn (as Michael Weatherred) | |
| Laura Stepp | ... | Mother | |
| Roger Nolan | ... | Father |
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90 min
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Argentina:13 |
South Korea:15 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 (video premiere) |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Germany:16 |
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Miscellaneous: Olivier Gruner is miscredited as Oliver Gruner on the box art.
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Major West:
In the old days, I would have raped and tortured you for hours. There's just no time for life's simple pleasures anymore. Oh, well. Goodnight.
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Olivier Gruner finally finds the one role he excels at, a robot who protects a woman from her boss/rapist who the corporation then decide to send an army to kill both her and the robot to avoid bad press and save face with stock holders, making Gruner the only one who can protect her and save the day. Automatic is a solid reason why one can't write off straight to video science fiction. Automatic is well directed, well made and has moments of true atmosphere. The movie also has some good ideas such as how robots are intertwined with humans and how the robot in question weren't trying to take over the world and rather provide confused responses to human nature. This is a movie where the bad guys are human and the hero is a robot who deals in black and white morals because it's the way he's been programmed. It also has that Blade Runner vibe of how the corporations are the evils of society and on its own level it succeeds rather well. This is easily the best thing you'll ever see from Olivier Gruner and aside from the bad acting from the cast (John Glover and Gruner aside...) the film works in both categories its been sold as. My only complaint was that it didn't feature more robot's responses toward issues regarding human nature but it is an Olivier Gruner movie. His best one by the way.
* * * out of 4-(Good)