I just stumbled across this on youtube and it immediately reminded me of infinity. What do you all think of this?
I concur totally with the assessment, while the Central Plot is a little lackluster the "Action Scenes" realization is wonderful. . . Could also give some very useful ideas for some nasty tricks for an Infinity R.P.G. Campaign where one (or ALL !!) the Players Characters believe to be "Human Sphere Loyalists" when in reality are Ex-Captured Humans filled with insidious "Voodoo Tech Kamikaze Bombs" and their Sepsitorized Cubes are so sophisticated to allow some latitude in how to interpretate the E.I.'s Directives. . . The plot could also be far more complicated; what I suspect that the Directors and Writers of the Short is that PERHAPS the "Cybernetic Dopplegangers" were NOT intended as "Suicide Bots" but rather unbeknowong, unaware "Spies" that have the unfortunate side-effect of having their "Plasma Generators" somehow overload and explosive meltdown when the Emotional State of the Copy goes mad. . . It make Me remember a relatively old Sci-Fi Movie where the protagonist (I believe it was Sam Neill, but could misremember) was an Earth Scientist "Body-Doubled" by an Evil Alien Empire and that exploded only at the End of the Movie, when faced with the original Corpse after believing (and led the audience to believe, too) that was in reality an innocent framed victim. . . . . . . . A part from the "Human Borderguard Commander" (the excellent Israeli Actor named Oded Fehr) also many of the crew of the movie seemed either Israeli or Middle East Arabs, so it was a bold movie to shoot the externals in some kind of Middle Eastern Suq places where this is a very sensitive R.W. Issue. . . Maybe they wanted to do a parable of too easily point finger to Suicide Bombers who are really duped / framed innocents, and this perhaps confused the issue with too much "Socio Cultural" chaff, much as the more famous Movies of Neill Blomkampf have not so clear plots done to portray also Satyrical Views of R.W. Problems (such as South African Post-Apartheid in "District9" and "Chappy" and generic "First World Against Third World" in Elysium). . . Anyway I found it enough well-done, with just a minor issue with the TERRIBLE aim of the Machines' Borderguard "Megadrones" (seriously, how MUCH Smart-Rockets You have to shoot to down a low-flying Human Vtol that is 10-20m. from Your VERY NOSE !!). . . . . . . . But, anyway @oldGregg, many thanks for the Link; nowaday there are a lot of variable level Short Sci-Fi Movies around the Web, and this is one of the most recent best. . . . .!!!
Glad you liked it, @stevenart74 Did the robotic border guard remind anyone else of the Maghariba Guard? That was my first thought. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Damn... now I remember watching that movie when I was like 12 years old and it was freaking epic. I was on his side the whole movie and I felt betrayed when I saw him explode finding his own body
I concur that an Actor of relatively immediate recognizable fame gives a better feeling to many Short Movies that We have seen around the Web in recent times (such as Lance Reddick who stars in many Shorts and "Mocaps" for Videogames such as "Horizon" or even better the ex-child prodigy Dakota Fanning or the "Veteran Science Fiction Star" Sigourney Weaver appearing in many of the new, experimental Shorts of Neill Blomkampf). . . Also being an Israeli-born actor the choice of Oded Fehr for a grizzled commander of a Middle-Eastern Garrison Force forced to make a tough decision to avoid a new catastrophical war was spot on, on plus of the general cool awesomeness of an Action Star that made a lot of interesting roles in the past. . .
Close. It was Gary Sinise. The movie was "Impostor" (2001). The twist ending ("There are two of them") is explosive. :D
Maybe Possession (1981) was what he had in mind when thinking weird Sam Neill? And then it got mixed with aliens and explosions.
Yep, @chromedog and @Mob of Blondes, You nailed it. . . I mixed "Impostor" with other kind of movies and confused Gary Sinise with Sam Neill; I was uncertain as well and a research of the New Zealand actor career had not amounted to much in its Sci Fi stuff. . . By the way, the movie plot was heavily inspired by a far older 50 TV Short made in Italy in Black-&-White (when the action happens in Rome Outskirts and the threat is a "Viral Payload" rather than an "Organic Nuclear Bomb"), and that was a sort of Italian low-budget rendition of the "Twilight Zone" kind of format. . . But the trope of the "Hidden Alien Threat" was used a lot of times, from Sci-Fi Shorts to more typical "Domestic Horror" flicks. . .
Yeah. The impostor movie is based off an old PKD short story of the same name, and shows ties to his usual themes about the nature of human identity but given that it was written when PKD was in one of his "ripped off his tits" states, where the inspiration for IT came from is unknown. It was meant to be a 30 minute short film, part of a PKD anthology film, but was expanded to a full-feature. Paycheck (Ben Affleck) came out in 2003 and was ALSO based on an old PKD story of the same name. PKD has had quite a few of his works turned into movies. Blade Runner is the one that everyone remembers. He also did "Total Recall" (as "We can remember it for you wholesale"), "Screamers", "Man in the high castle [small screen]", "The Adjustment bureau", "A scanner darkly" (Keanu Reeves was in it, rotoscoped animation) and "Minority report" to name a few of them. The late 90s-early 2000s was good for PKD.
You do know that PKD was a paranoid schizophrenic, right? Who *knew* he was seeing things that everyone else couldn't... Poor bastard.
... and I'm sure the copious amounts of drugs (both prescribed and otherwise) had a lot to do with it. He was a whackjob - but sometimes a brilliant one.
