Parent reviews for Monsters of Man

First: The casting, the cast, and the acting was pretty damned good, far better than the dozens of shoddily acted B-movie sci-fi flicks on Netflix. As a robot/AI/CG/sci-fi fan I wanted to really love this, but I didn't. That doesn't take away from the above-average, even superb acting from a good-looking cast and the very authentic-feeling locals. Child actors were a delight. The CG is exceptional. I don't know how they managed such high-level CG on a budget, but it's near-flawless. Kudos to the entire visual effects team. The egregious violence is part of the fun but may be too intense for younger children. Though it may upset some, kids see plenty of this in any modern video game. I guess the problem I have is the same problem I have with every military-mission-gone-bad movie—it's simply not believable. I'll forgive the far-too-advanced-AI for this millennium faux pax, but the tired trope of the evil CIA and its illegal war-game technology needs a facelift. Just another creative take on the trope would be appreciated. High marks for acting, casting, locations, and gorgeous transition shots, but with a just bit more ingenuity imbued into the antagonist or overall dramatic conflict, this could really be something special.

First off, I don't think the reviewer here actually watched the movie, claiming it's "not particularly kind to non-White-male" (sic) characters. On the contrary, all the unequivocally bad guys are white men: The military major testing his new war machines on civilians, the military contractor boss who supplies the machines, two of the three main programmers, and the spec-ops guy who coerces the programmers -- at gun-point, while threatening the lives of their families -- after they realize with horror that their creations are being used on civilians. Meanwhile, the heroic characters include a Cambodian boy, the boy's kind mother, the boy's father who dies defending his family, two females including an Asian-American woman, and yes, a white male former Navy SEAL. Apparently the author of the review thought the Navy SEAL risking life and limb -- with complete, utter humility -- was "problematic" because he's a white male. Yet his character has surprising depth: Not only does he put himself at enormous risk to save the lives of the mother, her child and the American doctors on a charity mission who got caught in the crossfire, he does so unarmed, and it's revealed that he carries a deep sense of guilt because he was the only survivor of a raid in which his friends were killed. Additionally, the main plot thread in this movie involves four semi-autonomous androform robot soldiers, including one that malfunctions, becomes self-aware when its controlling "AI cap" is disabled, and slowly comes to the realization that human life, indeed all life, is precious: A realization it arrives at with the help of the aforementioned Cambodian boy, who after seeing both of his parents killed, clings to the one remaining adult he loves, the Navy SEAL. This movie is about redemption, both human and machine. It has a diverse cast of characters, it depicts life in another country, and it poses important questions not only about life, but about how many human beings are willing to allow others to suffer -- or directly cause that suffering -- for greed, as the defense contractor and his programmers are seeking a military contract for their machine soldiers, which will pay them handsomely. I really think more thought should have been put into this review. Does the movie feature violence? Yes. Does it glorify it in any way? Absolutely not. In fact, it's just the opposite. Violence is shown as horrific, including showing war has consequences long after it's done, by showing us how entire swaths of southeast Asia are peppered with still-active landmines. This was a surprisingly good movie with a good message, it's just not for young kids.

Lots and lots of violence, death, horrible ways to die. This I don't necessary like, can be shown in other ways, don't have to show blood gushing, guts flying etc. But the one thing I really don't like is it seems in movies anymore, that no one is educated or taught the english language. Or they are just taught all the curse words and that's all they can say, over and over and over and over. Too bad the people that write the movies can't write better dialogue.

Realistic enough. There are some flaws indeed, but still realistic overall. I think the director made a huge effort to try to express how bad he hates the banality of evil. I feel this way only because I hate it too. But of course, it's a movie, movies only demonstrate confilicts and leave the judging part to the audience. So the first time I had the feeling that this cliche-looking film is probably going deeper than the ones I've seen before was when Ann was having problems with their questionable deeds, and Boller said "Do you have a problem taking orders?". And the conversation between br4 and Mason was exactly what I was expecting until eventually comes the conclusion: Life Is Important. However how br4 came to this conclusion wasn't shown to us, which could've been more explicit. But maybe the director just wants us to think about this question for a while. Of course, in reality, civilians' lives worth nothing to politicians and capitalists and it won't change in a very long time, but let's just say we need to value it ourselves to start making the situation better. And yeah, I've always hated soldiers for war and I will keep hating them, no matter which side they're on or where they're from. Oh and to the other comment, we are kinda far from there so no need to worry about rouge AI. Motion sensor signal processing and coalescence with motors to reach balance, visual signal processing etc are all individually pretty big and difficult features to develop, let along the ultimate AI that actually understand "I think therefore I am". Just in case some people really start panicing on this now lol. Too soon.

The movie is highly graphic and violent in its own right; but the scariest thing is that in real life, the most likely outcome would be the termination of the entire group without any of the drama depicted in the film. Just cold, heartless efficiency, exactly as a machine would do. This is the world that's coming, this is the world our children will live in.

One of the best I've seen in awhile. Riveting from start to finish. It was very realistic. It felt like it could've been based off real events if this type of technology existed. The acting was steller. It was unpredictable. No parts were bootleg. It seem very real and didnt leave you asking why didn't they do this instead. And to respond to the review above, youd be screaming too if you were in that situation. And the robot cut the man up because he had just gone through a doctor's tablet and was in discovery mode as the movie explained. I really dont have one complaint about this movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I enjoyed it so much, this is actually the 1st movie review I've ever written.

The film was basically a robot going around killing people from beginning to end. The girls in the film were super annoying screaming every five seconds. Overly violent and graphic for no reason. One scene consist of the robot cutting off a mans face for absolutely no reason and holding it up. There really wasn't a story.