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80
Viewer score based on 4 votes.

Critic Score

43
Critics' score based on 7 reviews.
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More violent than anything Wood ever did, Automatons nevertheless has the kitschy feel and look of something he might have concocted. And I mean that as a compliment.Full Review

V.A. Musetto
New York Post

The acting is flat, and the scientist's ideological speeches too bluntly designed to mirror post-9/11 rhetoric. But there's a dreamy fascination to the iconic images of machines fighting a perpetual war for the human creators they'll inevitably outlast.Full Review

Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide

Automatons is driven less by its hints of suicide bombers than by its rigorous adherence to a time when robots were played by inverted dustbins and battles were represented by dots converging on a crackling screen. This lack of sophistication is enormously endearing, leaving us with the comforting notion that the end of the world will look a lot like the beginning of television.Full Review

Jeannette Catsoulis
The New York Times

A mild and static attempt at sincere camp.Full Review

Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

Automatons is what happens when "Eraserhead" and "Tetsuo the Iron Man" bong themselves into oblivion and collaborate on a minimalist avant-garde sci-fi cheapie shot in a toolshed.Full Review

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