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I managed to endure a staggering 39 minutes of what can best be described at utmost boredom when I sat down to watch "The Devil's Machine" (aka "Automata") from writer Sarah Daly and director Lawrie Brewster.

Now, it was the movie's cover/poster and the fact that it was listed as a horror movie that initially made me sit down to watch this 2019 movie. But the fact that I hadn't already seen it before also helped to win me over.

And I endured 39 minutes, and I can honestly say that I will not, never ever, be returning to "Automata" to attempt to watch the rest of the movie. This movie just was a massive swing and a miss from director Lawrie Brewster in terms of appealing to me or entertaining me.

The storyline was just rubbish. It felt like a heap of random scenes shot independently of one another and then given to the editor to make a movie out of the random clips of film.

Little did it help that the characters portrayed in the movie had as much appeal as wet cardboard and never stood a snowballs chance in Hell of winning me over. The dialogue given to the actors and actresses was just dull, mediocre and tedious.

My rating of "Automata" is a more than generous two out of ten stars. This was a stinker, and my advice is to give the movie a wide berth.

Just weird, music is awful, too much colors, don't waste your time

I would say this moovie was very cowfusing, except that it was also exceedingly boring as well. There are some nice locations (probably the whole reason the moovie exists in the first place), and some nice costumes, and for the moost part the acting was decent - but the meandering, wobbly, WTF story will leave you scratching yer head so mooch you'll think the moovie gave you head lice. There are lighting issues and udder production problems too. For an indie effort I suppose I have seen mooch worse, but this is a stinker through and through - so if you expect that, maybe this flick won't let you down too much. But if yer looking for a top flight horror flick, I moost inform you that you will be sadly mistaken. Good think my Dollar Tree blu ray also came with the dvd, 'cause the blu ray would not work! If yer looking to pad your horror cowllection with a cheap indie for a buck, maybe this isn't bad, but I feel really sorry for anyone who paid moore than a couple of dollars (pounds??) for this stinker.

:=8P.