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- 2020
- TV-MA
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 49 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 49 m
Summary 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife.
Directed By: Gavin Rothery
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 49 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 49 m
Archive
67
6.9
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Summary 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife.
Directed By: Gavin Rothery
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
67
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
67
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Gavin Rothery understands that filmmaking is a visual medium. The story of Archive is told through pictures as much as dialogue. In some of the most effective and integral scenes, no one is talking. Archive is an old story told well.
It’s highly competent throughout, and outright brilliant at times, but it lacks the necessary level of connection with the real world. And by the end, it’s lost track even of its own hard-earned but fragile sense of emotion.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 58 User Ratings
6.9
62% Positive
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
24% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
14% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 58 User Ratings
6.9
62% Positive
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
24% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
14% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Saw this on an airplane. Had never heard of it. Blown away! There are things that will turn some people off which is reflected I think in a few very negative reviews I've read but this movie moved me. It's dark, it's desolate, I felt lonely on a plane with 150 people about half way through. But I powered through and got the payoff in the final moments of the film.
It's gorgeous, thought provoking, intellectual Sci-fi at it's best. Maybe not for everyone but those that "get it" will be rewarded with a movie that they will remember for some time. Emotionally moving, confusing and perplexing all while keeping you on the edge of your seat because you're waiting for something... to understand something that's just outside your understanding. Fantastic film.
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The feature writing/directing debut for a man whose history is in art departments, it should be no surprise that the pic looks wonderful, with distinctive design and lush settings; but Rothery also fares well with the human element, helped by a mature lead performance by Theo James, best known for the YA Divergent franchise.
Archive is a somewhat unwieldy sci-fi thriller to get into. The plot twists are many, and so are the cliches.
Put these elements together with some solid acting by James and a touching turn by the Parisian Martin, and Archive becomes a genre film that, if it doesn’t transcend the sum of its parts, at least has the parts to let us buy in and enjoy the story that it’s telling, derivative as it is.
The sleek result, like the scientist’s hi-tech Frankenstein creation, impressively looks and sounds the part, without quite having a soul of its own. That’s enough to make Archive a compelling calling card for the British freshman, with the promise of more advanced models to come.
Great movie, you get **** into the world. Stunning visuals, Theo James is almost in every frame and carries the movie. Stacy Martin is fantastic too. Can't wait to see what the director comes up with next!
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It's okay. But spends too much time on technology and corporate Intrigue. Which is not as interesting as questions like, what makes us human? Solaris and ex machina does it Better. Or even demon seed. Which is not about demons at all.
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This movie is yet another plodding story with pointlessly drawn out scenes filling in because there is nothing to tell. Stop trying to turn short stories into shows and movies. Just because it’s on camera doesn’t make it good. Story telling is not just adjectives. It includes character development, dialogue and some verbs. Writers these days are incompetent, inept and boring. I do not have time to waste watching an actor walk about, stare off into nothing, brush his teeth, drive about or any of numerous ways they waste time in shows and movies. If you do not have a good story to tell then **** and stop wasting everyone’s time.
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Awards
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
