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Earth, decades after the big bang: Humanity has survived and
life is back to normal ... but due to radioactivity, the humans are by far
not as prosperous as they are supposed to be, with only approximately 1.4
children per couple ... which makes it only a matter of time before
humanity dies out altogether.
Meanwhile, humanity has also created ever more sophisticated and
humanlike robots (complete with feelings and the like), to a point where
they start to resemble humans, and are in many ways even better (faster
learning, more accurate working, no tiring) - and thus, a group of
reactionary humans have formed the Flesh and Blood Order, to keep
the robots from taking over, which the order is sure they are planning ...
And indeed, there is a gang of robot conspiring to some higher aim,
helped by human scientist Dr.Raven (Don Doolittle), and they want to swap
several humans with their robot replicas - who thanks to brain
transplantation still have the same brain as their former human bodies,
only for one hour a day they feel compelled to report to the robots'
secret high council (while the rest of the day, they don't even remember
they are robots ...
Then though, the Flesh and Blood Order raids Raven's place, and Raven,
anxious to not be caught, asks the robots to kill him (and later restore
him), but since robots can't kill humans, one of the humans who has just
been turned into a robot (and thus still as human instincts) has to do the
dirty work.
The fact that the robots have killed a human (at least this is what it
looks like with Raven's death) gives the Flesh and Blood movement new
momentum ... but then Captain Cragis (Don Megowan), one of the leaders of
the Order, has to encounter a personal setback: His sister (Frances
McGann) is in love with a robot (David Cross), and neither she nor her
robot lover could give a ratfart about his lame-assed arguments against it
- in fact they even tease him.
But if that was a setback, wait what comes next: Cragis finds out that
he and his new-found lover (Erica Elliott) are robots as well, first in an
attempt by the robots to turn the whole humanity into a race of immortal
machines - in fact this was their conspiracy, which now turns out to be a
benign plan to save mankind ...
And suddenly, Cragis begins to see the cause of the robots ...
Despite its obvious cheapness, the film starts out interesting enough,
with its conspiring robots and order of robot-haters - however, eventually
the movie's script completely loses steam, and at the point where Cragis
visits his sister and her robot lover, it almost turns into a comedy,
while the ending is a sad anticlimax if there ever was one.
Still, nostalgia fans will find this to be an amusing cheap B-pic from
yesteryear.
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