The performances are cool and the plot’s a blast in Steven Gomez’s watchable drama about a military exercise that takes a terrible turn
Steven Gomez is a visual effects supervisor who has graduated to writing and directing his first full-length feature. It’s a sci-fi action thriller whose borrowings are very plain, but it’s decent and watchable nonetheless, with an interesting central character premise.
Reprising much of the style and hardware of Terminator and Robocop, Gomez gives us the story of some Us Marines who in the future are ’coptered to a remote location for training. With them is a young civilian observer called Mills (Vanessa Kirby) who is part android, having been “cured” of paralysis as a child by a sinister corporation that implanted in her head new software and artificially created brain matter: this is the same tech that runs the battle drones she is there to inspect.
Steven Gomez is a visual effects supervisor who has graduated to writing and directing his first full-length feature. It’s a sci-fi action thriller whose borrowings are very plain, but it’s decent and watchable nonetheless, with an interesting central character premise.
Reprising much of the style and hardware of Terminator and Robocop, Gomez gives us the story of some Us Marines who in the future are ’coptered to a remote location for training. With them is a young civilian observer called Mills (Vanessa Kirby) who is part android, having been “cured” of paralysis as a child by a sinister corporation that implanted in her head new software and artificially created brain matter: this is the same tech that runs the battle drones she is there to inspect.
- 5/12/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Here's the thing about Afm... hundreds of films are shopped and announced there, and who knows whether or not we'll ever get to see them. That being said, we're pretty sure given the talent involved, at least one of the following will definitely happen.
According to Screen Daily, Protagonist Pictures will be handling sales for two projects at Afm. The first, Kill Command, is to be written and directed by Steve Gomez. “The near-future set film will follow an elite army unit involved in a fight to the death after it is helicoptered to a remote island training facility where the Us Defense Department creates robot weapons.” The film will shoot in the spring of next year.
Protagonist is also doing pre-sales for Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England. "In the war-torn English countryside in 1648, a small group of deserters flee the raging battle through an overgrown field.
According to Screen Daily, Protagonist Pictures will be handling sales for two projects at Afm. The first, Kill Command, is to be written and directed by Steve Gomez. “The near-future set film will follow an elite army unit involved in a fight to the death after it is helicoptered to a remote island training facility where the Us Defense Department creates robot weapons.” The film will shoot in the spring of next year.
Protagonist is also doing pre-sales for Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England. "In the war-torn English countryside in 1648, a small group of deserters flee the raging battle through an overgrown field.
- 10/25/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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