![]() ![]() On one hand, it’s a pretty decent attempt as a low budget sci-fi film with limited resources that brings CGI effects into the fold that aren’t abysmal. The thing about Singularity however, is that you’ve seen it all before. Aimed at the Divergent and The Maze Runner YA Crowd, the film pits two teenagers in the cross-hairs of armoured mechanised bots intent with eliminating humans from the map of the world, as they try to find the last human city, known as Aurora. He bumps into Katniss Everdeen look-alike Calia (Jeannine Wacker) and after not shouting in her face: ‘ You’re clearly based on Jennifer Lawrence’s character from The Hunger Games!’ they form an uneasy alliance. Oh yeah, and I guess it merges with Cusack’s character to keep him alive for so long…or something…y’know…future shit.Ī teenager called Andrew (Julian Schaffner) awakens in the crumbled ruins of a building, a little confused as to how he’s survived the catastrophic annihilation of the world. We skip 97 years into the future and Kronos is still trying to wipe out the last remnants of humanity. End of the world stuff, right there,’ then you’d be correct – because like Skynet in The Terminator, when Cusack decides to bring his Frankenstein’s Monster 2.0 AI online (nicknamed Kronos, which conjures images of Nomadic Vikings kicking children in the face and then brutally hacking them to pieces with pointy axes) the computer instantly decides that humanity is the plague infesting Earth and launches missiles into buildings across the world, eradicating homo sapiens from the equation and creating the end of civilisation as we know it. If this ominously powerful computer intelligence makes you look at the screen and go, ‘Ah, yeah. That’s the layman terminology for you, however I’m sure there’s volumes as thick as Donald Trumps’ hair lacquer filled with reports about it if you’re into interested in researching that kind of thing. Popularized by science fiction author Vernor Vinge, the Singularity is a theoretical point in future history when artificial intelligence exceeds the power of the human mind, becomes self-aware and dramatically changes the balance of power on the planet while simultaneously transforming the very nature of humanity itself. In the sci-fi movie ‘ Singularity,’ John Cusack plays visionary CEO Elias van Dorne, who brings sentient artificial life upon the world in the year 2020. ![]()
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