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Follow us today to a 2014 British independent science fiction film called: Robot Overlords.
Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
Our story begins with a message about the Robots that invaded Earth three years ago.
And the war has lasted just eleven days.
A small Robot known as the Mediator gives a TV announcement telling people there is
only one rule, they must stay indoors!
We see a man run out onto the street with a stick in the rain.
He is shouting abuse when suddenly a Robot Drone hovers nearby issuing a warning to him
to return to his home.
On his neck, an electronic implant is blinking orange.
He is given 10 seconds to return to his home.
His son Connor is rushing him to come home.
Suddenly the man disintegrates.
We learn that all humans have electronic implants attached to their neck to control them.
Connor runs out into the street and kneels where his father was killed.
A woman named Kate and her son Sean, stand in the doorway yelling to Connor to go home
but he refuses.
The Drone issues the same command to Connor then begins the countdown.
Just before Connor is killed, a man called Robin Smythe calls a command to the Drone
and it responds and flies away.
In Kate’s home, Robin tells her that he’s concerned about her two adopted children Nathan
and Alex.
It’s very obvious that they don’t like Robin because he works for the Robots.
As Robin is leaving, Sean enquires about his father who is missing.
Robin tells Kate she may look after Connor.
Now we see a large Robot craft which is a Control Cube, hovering above the seaside town
in the distance.
The next morning, we see Connor returning to his own house to collect his things while
a giant Robot called a Sentry, gives him 5 minutes to return to Kate’s.
He only just makes it back to her house in time.
We see Kate, Sean and the others watching a Mediator announcement on TV,
saying that the Robots are studying all life in the universe and when they are finished
studying humans they will leave Earth and never return.
Alex says they’re lying.
Sean is in the kitchen making notices to find his father Danny Flynn.
He folds them and puts them inside tennis balls,
then fires them with elastic up and out to other streets.
Now we see Sean working out while Nathan is talking to an older man named Martin.
Sean is determined to stay fit with exercise and training.
We see Sean, Alex and Connor in the attic watching Nathan working on a game consul.
Suddenly, Nathan gets an electric shock from the game consul and is thrown across the room.
Alex rushes to help him and notices that his implant is turned off.
They’re so excited because this means they can now go outside without being tracked.
They each take the electric shock to deactivate their implant.
That night, we see the four of them venturing outside.
They see a Drone fly up through the clouds then shortly after, a Sentry passes close
by but they remain undetected.
They enter a railway museum and find candy, drinks and sky rockets.
Connor gives Sean a tennis ball he found, with a reply to Sean's message about his father.
It says that his father was captured but they don’t know where he is now.
It also says there are people’s files kept at the school.
They go to the school and leave Connor outside to stand guard.
Once inside, they follow a man carrying files.
Once he has left, they quickly search through the files and Sean finds his father’s file
and the location on a map where he’s being held.
Suddenly their implants start to flash so it seems the shock is only a temporary effect.
They run to find Connor who is carrying the battery.
Connor gives himself another shock but the others can’t find him
. When their implants turn to orange, they are quickly captured by Sentries and then
questioned by Robin . They refuse to tell him how they turned
off their implants.
Two men bring Martin in and Sean tells Robin to let him go.
They place Martin in a large machine which replaces his implant with a different implant
then the machine locks him in to do a deep scan.
Martin is in a lot of pain and he calls Robin a traitor.
The Mediator they’ve seen on TV walks in and tells them they will be keeping the data
from Martin forever.
Martin falls to the floor and Robin tells them the process has left Martin in a state
where he can’t even feed himself.
He will eventually die.
Connor wakes up and goes to investigate the noise.
He watches as they place Sean into the machine for the same treatment.
Connor goes to another room to light the sky rockets.
Sean tells Robin that he knows Robin had his wife and his son killed.
Robin gets very angry as he approaches the machine,
but Sean kicks the bottom of the machine upwards and it knocks Robin to the ground.
Just then, Connor comes in firing skyrockets at Robin and the other two men.
Sean escapes the machine and his implant is deactivated.
He quickly unlocks Nathan and Alex and they all run out together while the Mediator watches.
Nathan enters a laboratory and turns on all the gas taps then leaves a lighter burning
near the door before they run from the building.
When they are well clear, they turn to watch the building explode.
Now we see them hiding out in a ten pin bowling alley and Nathan is electrocuting himself
again to deactivate his implant.
Alex tells him they have to do it every 13 hours.
Nathan gets angry with Sean because Martin was killed.
The next few days, we see the group moving between the houses to stay unseen by the Robots.
As they enter the hotel where Danny is being held, they hear a noise and go to investigate.
They enter a large room which looks like a party with everyone drinking and watching
a boxing match.
The people all turn and look at the children then run at them, but one man named Wayne
fires off a gun which stops them.
When they see that the children’s implants are turned off they are taken to meet a woman
called Monique who seems to be their leader.
After Connor shows them how to deactivate the implants, Monique takes them to talk with
a man named Swanny, in a wheelchair.
He knew Danny but Danny is not in the hotel any longer.
He rambles on about a watchmaker, a river and a secret lake, but he’s very vague.
Now they all hear an announcement outside telling everyone to assemble downstairs.
As they look out the window they see Robin and Kate are with him.
Sean goes downstairs wearing his hoodie to hide his face.
Robin shows a photo of Sean and tells everyone Sean is wanted for questioning.
Before one man can turn Sean in, Wayne appears and gets Sean back to the hotel safely.
Behind the hotel, Sean says he is going to free his mother then go and look for his father.
The other three agree to help him.
Wayne gives them some sandwiches and a radio and wishes them luck.
As they leave, Monique watches from a window and uses the radio to get them clear of the
town.
Now we see Robin telling Kate that the Robots have promised him 100 acres of land when they
leave Earth, after it has been depopulated and free from pollution.
He asks her to join him but she says only if Sean can be with her.
He agrees reluctantly.
We see the children making their way through a cemetery.
Robin puts his hands on Kate’s shoulders but she turns and slaps him.
He tells her that when she knows the Robots’ true intentions; she’ll beg him to take
her.
Outside, the children are trying to avoid the Sentries when suddenly one Sentry tells
them to stop.
When it approaches Sean, it stops.
It seems to be synchronized with his new implant.
He has control of the Sentry.
Inside Robin’s building, a young man brings Kate some food and she convinces him to give
her the keys.
After he leaves, Kate goes downstairs when she hears a loud alarm.
Robin and his crew run outside the building to find Sean with his arms in the air and
a Sentry behind him.
Sean uses Sentry to disarm Robin and his men.
Sean tells Robin to bring his mother out.
Now we see Kate riding out on a horse as Sean calls after her.
Two Drones appear on the roof then shoot and disable the Sentry and Robin and his men run
back inside.
When one of the Drones jumps in front of Sean, it also syncs with his implant.
He makes it shoot down the other Drone.
Sean deactivates the Drone then they go after Kate.
We see Kate riding the horse along a beach being pursued by two quad bikes and a Jeep
being driven by the children.
They catch up to her and they leave together.
The next day, they are traveling along a road in the country, leading to a large forest.
Now we see a long line of Sentries.
The Mediator is telling Robin they need to capture Sean alive and everybody in the Zone
will be sent for a deep scan which will ultimately kill them.
If Sean isn’t captured by noon tomorrow, Smythe will be the first one to be deep scanned.
We see Kate and the children looking at some upright stones painted with graffiti.
Connor calls them all and they see that when the stones are lined up, they show a message.
“Cross the river 3 times to safety.”
They look at the map that Kate took from Robin’s building and see where they have to go.
They see a line of Sentries coming over the hill in the distance.
They go on foot through the forest and cross two bridges over the river.
Connor sees a small boy nearby.
When they call out, the boy runs away.
They come to a clearing and find a makeshift covering.
When they look inside, they find a Spitfire aircraft in perfect condition.
Sean looks outside and sees a man watching them.
When they walk out and climb the rise they see a small group of people.
Sean sees his father and he and Kate run and embrace him.
Danny takes them to a settlement at a lake where the other people have been hiding from
the Sentries.
As they’re walking through the settlement, someone sees a Drone so they all hide.
Inside the mine, Danny explains what happened at the outset of the war with the Robots and
how he met a man called Donald.
We see Donald removing the implants one by one.
In a Robot facility we see Robin questioning Wayne as he is held in a machine which is
about to do a deep scan.
Robin tells him that they’re aware of the settlement near the lake.
Danny and the others are sitting around a fire as Kate tells them that the Robots intend
to deep scan everyone on earth over a one year period
. Later, when everyone is asleep, Sean is pondering his removed implant.
Outside, Danny is showing Nathan the controls of the Spitfire when suddenly an alarm starts
sounding.
They look up at the hill and see the Mediator with a small army of Sentries.
Robin uses a loudspeaker and tells them if they hand over Sean they will be spared, but
when they get to Sean’s bed he is not there.
Now we see Sean standing in a field.
He reinserts his implant then calls a Drone.
Back at the settlement, Kate tells Robin that Sean is not there.
Kate tells Robin she will never be with him.
Robin tells the Mediator to remove her from the immunity list.
Now we see a Control Cube hovering and releasing a drilling bore that will turn the ground
to molten lava.
Danny and Nathan watch from a hill nearby.
Danny tells Nathan he’ll need his help with the Spitfire but Nathan says he won’t be
able to help.
In the sky, we see the main Robot facility flying towards them with Sean standing on
top, controlling its course to collide with the Control Cube.
The Mediator uses a Drone to take him to the facility.
He tells Sean that he may not withstand the impact of the collision.
Sean turns and stares at the Mediator and suddenly he is in sync with him.
Sean can see all the connections around the world between the Mediator and every Robot.
As the Robot facility tilts to one side, the Mediator falls to the ground breaking in two.
The Sentries on the hill begin firing at the Robot facility.
As Sean struggles to hold on, two drones fly close to him ready to fire but then they are
shot down as the Spitfire comes in fast.
Inside the Spitfire, Danny is telling Nathan he can’t believe that Sean is actually controlling
the Robot facility.
When the Robot facility collides with the Control Cube, Sean jumps and as he falls he
syncs with a nearby Drone and lands on its wing, flying clear of the collision.
On the ground below, Kate, Alex and Connor watch as the Sentries on the hilltop turn
and leave.
As the Sentries walk away, Robin follows them, calling to them.
One Sentry turns and orders Robin to return to his home immediately.
Robin no longer has control over the Sentry and after another warning the Sentry blasts
Robin to dust.
Now we see Sean, Alex, Nathan and Connor as they find the broken Mediator.
Sean holds him and syncs with him.
The Mediator tells Sean he must desist.
Slowly Sean takes control of the Mediator and we see Sentries everywhere shutting down.
The Control Cubes all begin to rise up into the atmosphere before exploding.
As the Mediator slowly shuts down, we see the effect take place worldwide as every Sentry
shuts down and every Control Cube explodes.
The exertion throws Sean backwards and he passes out.
After Alex leans down and kisses him, he comes to.
They stand and watch the nearby Control Cubes all exploding.
That night,ll Sean walks alone through town as everyone is celebrating the victory over
the Robot invasion.
He looks to the sky and wonders.
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