Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child.Five years later, Colonel Jean Howell tracks Taylor down in Los Angeles and shares some astonishing news; Maya may still be alive in the war zone and she convinces him to join a black-op team and infiltrate a secret New Asia research complex where she could be located. His target is a newly developed A.I.
Taylor’s discovery that Alpha-O is an A.I. in the form of a six-year-old girl called Alphie immediately jeopardizes the mission when he hesitates to terminate the target. Edwards and co-writer Chris Weitz’s fluidly intricate script gets the audience over this conceptual hurdle by populating their futuristic world with both conventional-looking robots and A.I. “simulants” like Alphie, entities combining a more human appearance with high-tech enhancements and naturalistic speech and behavior.
Rather than attempting to leverage scarce studio resources to achieve the film’s futuristic visuals, Edwards relied on innovative production techniques that he developed on his intriguing sci-fi debut feature