| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Antonio Banderas | ... | Jacq Vaucan | |
| Dylan McDermott | ... | Sean Wallace | |
| Melanie Griffith | ... | Duprè | |
| Birgitte Hjort Sørensen | ... | Rachel Vaucan | |
| Robert Forster | ... | Robert Bold | |
| Tim McInnerny | ... | Vernon Conway | |
| David Ryall | ... | Dominic Hawk | |
| Javier Bardem | ... | Blue Robot (voice) | |
| Boris Kabakchiev | ... | Boy #3 | |
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Lyubomir Neikov | ... | Poot |
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Krasimir Kutsurapov | ... | Palance |
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Anton Lamrev | ... | Unknown Boy |
| Geraldine Somerville | ... | Samantha | |
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Harry Anichkin | ... | Clift |
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Stanislav Pishtalov | ... | Lance |
2044. The climate change and a series of solar storms have turned in a desert the surface of the planet and annihilated to the 99.7 % of Earth's population, leaving alive 21 million people across the world in a single city covered by mechanical clouds (zeppelins anchored to the city) to make rain. Trying to rebuild the world again, a robot company named ROC Corporation create Automata Pilgrim 7000 with two security protocols: 1st, a robot cannot harm human beings, and 2nd, a robot cannot alter himself or another robot. But this situation changes when police officer Sean Wallace shoots and destroys a robot claiming that it was altering himself. With the company worried by the possible implications if the case were known by the people, insurance agent Jacq Vaucan is chose to investigate the happened, while Vaucan tries to convince his boss, friend and brother-in-law Robert Bold to transfer him and his pregnant wife Rachel to the coast, with Bold accepting the request if Vaucan solves ... Written by Chockys
9 of 10. This will remind you of Blade Runner in a harsher, still Earth-based world, testing out how a variation on Asimov's I, Robot rules can both work and be circumvented.
Because it doesn't extend technology as far beyond the present day, it has a more realistic feel to it. It also helps that it integrates everyday big-business into the plot. You can see the influence of not only Blade Runner, but Fight Club and Wall-E.
This could be a non-animated, adult prequel to Wall-E. It lacks the more technical, advanced cyberpunk of the Ghost in the Shell films, which like Blade Runner, seem a lot less dystopic relative to Automata.
Where this lacks is in the acting/casting along with the storyline originality, but never enough to get in the way of the story as a whole. Like any great story, you only wish it had been longer revealed more of the world it takes place in.