In spite of the bad to meh reviews, I decided to watch this, because, Dude, it"s Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, who I'd watch in a one woman show consisting of her, reading the ingredients off a box of hamburger helper. But seriously, it's Katee Sackhoff, (or IS it?) as Mackenzie, one of the last remaining humans manning a NASA like facility, after the aforementioned Mars mission, (which she convinced he reluctant Father to go on) makes it to within a hundred feet of the surface, and then explodes for no apparent reason. So, besides all the latent guilt for convincing Dada to go, when he (perhaps presciently) didn't want to, the higher ups, looking to affix blame, kinda make her and her former supervisor, Brooks, the fall guys, and convert the facility, and all future missions to robotic A.I. with her as the supposed minder. She is SUPPOSED to be running the mission to drop a rover on the crash site to see just WTF made the landing go pear shaped, when the A.I., affectionately called Arti (get it... A.R.T.I.) pretty much takes over and launches the mission early. "Mack" in a panic, calls the big boss who also happens to be her big sister, who inherited the gig when Daddy got spread all over the Martian landscape. (yep, it's still all about WHO you know in the future) only to be informed that she put the machine in charge, cuz, you know, we don't really trust humans to make the REALLY important decisions anymore, since , the incident. Seeing that it looks like it's time to hold em, or fold and walk away, Mack acquiesces, and things appear to be going well when, Damn, it's Deja Vu all over again and the mission is about to go VERY sideways as Arti chooses to fold em' due to there being only a 3% chance of success. Starbuck, er, Mack does some of that voodoo that she doos so well, and ups the odds to 43%, which Arti concedes is better than he could do and so he (it?) makes the course corrections that save the lander. The two grudgingly begin to bond, as each begins to realize they are better as a team. Cue the obligatory impending Martian dust storm on steroids, and a mysterious signal of "unknown origin", and then, they decide to send the rover to see what it can see. And Lo and Behold, it finds.... THE BORG! I kid you not, it finds a fracking' Borg Cube!!! So, they decide to say hello by way of "we come with dental tools" and they shove a drill bit up the backside of an obviously technologically advanced piece of machinery, and, in a pleasant turn of events, the cubes resistance was futile, and they were essentially able to "key" the paint job, and chip off a microscopic sample for analysis. And you guessed it,.... the sample turns out to be....., Nanites! Oh Snap! Now, HERE's where it starts to get weird. ( OK, silly) Above the planet, something BAD is about to happen, so Arti decides to take rather DRASTIC action, which somehow triggers the Borg cube to start twerking and doing a bad Cardi B impression, sans the pole, as fireworks ensue, and then,...... it's gone! WTFRACK??? Then instantaneously, somewhere deep in the Antarctic, what should appear but....., Frack, Frack and double Frackilation! Wait, is this first contact, or, did the Cube just phone home? Is it ours? Is it theirs? Just who are THEY? Questions arise, malfeasance and shenanigans ensue, and, just like Sarah Conner warned us..., Skynet decides WE are the virus, and decides it's time for a world wide inoculation.... .And THEN it gets even weirder (OK, downright roll me in flour and call me a biscuit sillier) Cue the 2001: A Space Odyssey light show.... The Turing Test proposed that a computer can be said to possess artificial intelligence if it can mimic human responses under specific conditions, or, on a mega scale, if you were actually IN the Matrix, how would you know, unless someone like Morpheus pointed it out? Is Mack still Mack? Didn't we just see her shed her mortal coil? Or, was she ever REALLY alive? Is this the present, past, or future prologue? This IMO is the point where an intriguing concept gets muddled up like the writers and directors didn't quite know how to close the deal. The third act just misses the mark in selling what was an interesting concept, because of poor execution, or just simply not knowing where to go. It reminds me a bit of "Moon" with Sam Rockwell, but not as well conceived. Katee Sackhoff does a yeoman's job with what she is given, but, yes, the C movie FX, do tend to pull you out of disbelief. So, as Agent 86 used to say..., they "Missed it by THAT much". Close, but no cigar, if you decide to stick with it to the end.

We are Wheatley, you will be asimilated, em sorry I mean built, resistance is futile

Started off okay and then went downhill to an unexplainable ending. The director's obviously did not have a clue how to end the movie and made a complete mess of it. Therefore, not worth a watch.

Uummm what?!? I'm not quite sure what was going on here. What I could gather of the story is terrible, the CGI is even worse with absolutely no regard for continuity or physics, and most of it just seems like fluff so it's not just Katee talking to a camera for two hours. One of the worst movies I've seen in a while.

2036 Origin Unknown - ❤x7 So many AI movies lately. This one is before all the recent talk about AI's. The movie itself is a one-room Drama. There will always be nay-sayers (see other comments here), but this is actually a pretty good movie and I enjoyed it very much. Sackhoff does an excellent job here. She kind of has to since she carries the whole movie. We are given little hints as to what is actually going on behind the scenes throughout the movie, so the ending should not come as a complete surprise, but there is still a little bit of a surprise at the end. I'd say it's definitely worth a look. How I rate: 1-3 ❤ = seriously! don't waste your time 4-6 ❤ = you may or may not enjoy this 7-8 ❤ = I expect you will like this too 9-10 ❤ = movies and TV shows I really love!