So lifelike and human are the members of the 404 series of robots that they eventually enter a period of adolescence, with all the troublesome accompaniments: a taste for video games and rock-and-roll, an awakening sexual curiosity, an increasing recalcitrance, a tendency to get in with the wrong crowd. (The wrong crowd, in this instance, means a boringly squabblesome trio of fugitives who disrupt the activities of a previously peaceful space lab.) The filmmakers show that they themselves, for all their flippancy, have a more than adolescent respect for their elders, by throwing in a clip of the robot manufacture from Metropolis, and by hiring Klaus Kinski, with his German Expressionist inclinations, for the role of the Mad Scientist. Directed by Aaron Lipstadt. (1984) — Duncan Shepherd
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