疯狂的科学家弗兰肯斯坦（Aden Young 饰）用不同的尸体部分创造了科学怪人亚当（艾伦·艾克哈特 Aaron Eckhart 饰），可却失去了对方的信任。亚当在埋葬了弗兰肯斯坦后，遭到可怕的恶魔们的袭击。关键时刻，他被一群神秘战士救下，对方是鲜为人知的夜行神龙族，长 久以来一直和可怕的炼狱恶魔作战。在女王莲诺尔（米兰达·奥图 Miranda Otto 饰）的请求下，曾经憎恨人类的亚当加入了剿灭恶魔的战团。此后两百多年，他在世界各地流浪，只为先下手为强，除掉恶魔的头目纳贝流士王子（比尔·奈伊 Bill Nighy 饰）。
When an internet vigilante develops a revolutionary new computer program to combat online predators, its rapid advancement leads to serious questions of autonomy, oppression, and what it really means to be human.
Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the Western alliance. It isn't too long after, however, that the Russians announce that they too have built a similar computer for those same purposes on their side--Guardian. And when the two machines begin sharing information at a speed nobody can believe, an attempt is made to disable them.
This unfortunately just raises the machines' ire; and in retaliation, they launch their weapons at each other's home nations. The result is a chilling scenario that is potentially becoming all too real these days.
COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT was not a big hit at the box office for various reasons. One is that its cast wasn't exactly well known. Another reason is that its ending isn't exactly a happy one. Still a third reason is that Universal had trouble trying to promote it in the wake of the huge success of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The latter reason is obvious: Colossus and Guardian, like HAL in the Kubrick movie, become central characters here. The difference here is that while HAL malfunctions due to a programming conflict, Colossus and Guardian remain all too stable, convinced beyond a doubt that they know how to protect Mankind better than Man himself. As the computers point out: "One inevitable rule is that Mankind is his own worst enemy."
Joseph Sargent's direction is efficient, and the special effects work of Albert Whitlock still manages to work despite its obvious age. An overlooked gem in the sci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.
