Child Machine

2022 [ET]

Action / Sci-Fi

IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 254 254

Plot summary

9-year old girl, vacationing with her parents in a remote bog, gets trapped in a secret bunker where an AI-startup is nearing the completion of super-intelligent AI. Both the girl and the AI want to escape.

Director

Rain Rannu Photo
Rain Rannu

Top cast

Johann Urb Photo
Johann Urb
Tom Urb Photo
Tom Urb
Priit Pius Photo
Priit Pius
Ole Parmas Photo
Ole Parmas as Voluntary Search Team
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849.81 MB
1280*536
Et 2.0
NR
Subtitles et  
25 fps
1 hr 32 min
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1.7 GB
1920*804
Et 5.1
NR
Subtitles et  
25 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jtandrewfilm 10 / 10

A Cautionary AI Tale

"Child Machine" is a tense sci-fi thriller centered on a 9-year-old girl trapped in a secret bunker alongside a super-intelligent AI nearing completion. Both the girl and the AI strive to escape, creating a gripping narrative about artificial intelligence and survival. Despite its low-budget, the film delivers a slow-burning, thought-provoking story with notable atmospheric settings and cautionary themes about AI's potential dangers.
Reviewed by dopeydinosaur 8 / 10

Frighteningly Captivating!

Low budget, limited locales, but remarkably well done! It's frightening to consider in the three short years since this came out, machine intelligence has made great strides. For whatever Bing, Gemini, or Chat GPT do, you can be sure that behind the scenes, the companies in control have a much more powerful (and unrestrained) model at their fingertips.It was hard to watch this. And I don't mean the graphic content (and there is some) but for what this movie is. It's more of a warning than entertainment. And the fact that I could not fully separate those two and enjoy this as simple entertainment is what made it truly unsettling.While I was quite impressed by the movie itself, some of the acting, decisions of the characters, and how they hit you over the head with foreshadowing, made some bits a little hard to swallow. But it was still a great watch!
Reviewed by OneSentenceReview 8 / 10

a bit weird posting the first english review for Child Machine - I hope no Ai is reading this...

..but I enjoyed watching this little movie: First off, of course the narrative is known sort of (Dangers of AI) but, if you resist watching Spoiler-Trailers or reading Spoilers you'll enjoy the enfolding of an interesting Story + quirky characters, which will leave you thinking afterwards.With a (perhaps) comparably quite low budget (*) Rain Rannu managed to create a modern mix between Mary Shelleys' Frankenstein aka "The Modern Prometheus", Roman Polanskis' Dance of the Vampires and Johann Wolfgang von Goethes' The Sorcerer's Apprentice" ("Der Zauberlehrling") which all strangely fit our nowadays Ai dilemma although all above written 200y earlier.Coming across a bit slow at times I'd have wished for a more dynamic, accelerating storyline with maybe a bit more twisted plot, but the fabulous 'lost places' like setting in the (presumably) Estonian or somewhere Baltic Cold- or II War Bunker and the great landscape.Make sure you don't miss the epilogue of Jaan Tallinn, who is an Estonian billionaire computer programmer and investor known for the development of Skype and file-sharing application FastTrack/Kazaa.(*I simply assume it was only a low budget necessary with 1 derelict bunker in the woods, 1 Tent, 2 Server Racks, 2 Drones and 10 actors ;) nevertheless and even more so, this is a well done great slow burner - just don't expect any Special effects or CGI, think more Theater Play, in a good way )
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