26 September 2008. Before I would have seen this movie, I would have paused to wonder how the scriptwriter took a classic such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) or popular movie such as "War Games" (1983), "Enemy of the State," (1998), and even a movie such as Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) based on D.F. Jone's novel "Colossus," or "Demon Seed" (1977) based on Dean R. Koontz's novel and made it into an horror/action/thriller that uses more artificial plot devices to keep the movie moving than almost any movie I've seen. The two-thirds of the movie was unbelievably frustratingly impossible plausibility of what was happening or even worse how the heroes somehow even survive into the second half of the movie. The movie has some suspense, jiggly camera work that attempts to make the action look cool but doesn't. There are a few dialogue gems, bits of humor as well as some decent plot scenes but they can't substitute for a consistent, entertaining movie experience. By the last third of the movie when the action and tension begin to come together with some decency, the typical American ending comes home in style deflating the emotional impact of the finale. Six out of Ten Stars.
