量子资源网提供本资源 <> Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a suercomuter named Colossus, built solely for the urose 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 comuter for those same uroses on their side--Guardian. And when the two machines begin sharing information at a seed nobody can believe, an attemt is made to disable them. This unfortunately just raises the machines' ire; and in retaliation, they launch their weaons at each other's home nations. The result is a chilling scenario that is otentially 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 hay one. Still a third reason is that Universal had trouble trying to romote 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 rogramming conflict, Colossus and Guardian remain all too stable, convinced beyond a doubt that they know how to rotect Mankind better than Man himself. As the comuters oint out: "One inevitable rule is that Mankind is his own worst enemy." Joseh Sargent's direction is efficient, and the secial effects work of Albert Whitlock still manages to work desite its obvious age. An overlooked gem in the sci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.
