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Colossus: The Forbin Project

Name: Colossus: The Forbin Project
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
Released: 1970
Duration: 100 min
Cast: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Georg Stanford Brown

Taste attributes: science fictionthrillerespionagehistoricalrobots/ai/spacefresh & originalunsavouryheavyimaginaryintricatebig & variedall consuming questrescue/escape/jeopardyunderdog triumphs

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"This is the dawning of the Age of Colossus (where peace is compulsory... freedom is forbidden... and Man's greatest invention could be Man's greatest mistake)."

Boxlist takeA smart, otherworldly sci-fi film: inventive and serious. Best if you like puzzles over plain sailing.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: very fresh · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: very intricate · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Quality rating

7.0 /10

TMDB · 148 votes

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Intricacy: Smart / intricate, just how this profile likes it
Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it
Weightiness: Weighty / heavy, just how this profile likes it

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Setting / scale: Big / varied, where this profile leans small / confined
Emotional punch: Balanced emotional punch, where this profile leans emotive / stirring

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Synopsis

Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established the two become a new Super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground.

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