Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI android suit that actually looks expensive for once.
Acting
Olivier Gruner commits to robot pathos like it's Shakespeare.
Director
John Murlowski
Olivier Gruner
J269
Daphne Ashbrook
Nora Rochester
John Glover
Goddard Marx
Jeff Kober
Major West
Dennis Lipscomb
Raymond Hammer
Stanley Kamel
Seth Barker
Penny Johnson Jerald
Julia Rodriguez
Annabelle Gurwitch
Gloria Takamatsu
Troy Evans
Buck James
Marjean Holden
Epsilon Leader
Jeffrey D. Sams
Harry
Laura Interval
Mother
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Olivier Gruner was a real French kickboxing champion; his robotic stiffness was partly authentic exhaustion from training.
Released months before Ghost in the Shell, it shares the same anxiety about corporate-owned artificial bodies—just with way worse dialogue.
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