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* ReplacementGoldfish: The Machine for Eva. Vincent wants to follow up with his daughter.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: The Machine for Eva.Ava. Vincent wants to follow up with his daughter.
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In the future, there is a cold war with China, consisting of building more and more sophisticated intelligent machines. Britain's Ministry of Defense is funding the work of brilliant scientist named Vincent [=McCarthy=] (Creator/TobyStephens), who is secretly funneling research funds to attempting to cure his terminally ill daughter. A new recruit from America named Eva helps him make a breakthrough that allows him to make his first prototype.
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In the future, there is a cold war with China, consisting of building more and more sophisticated intelligent machines. Britain's Ministry of Defense is funding the work of brilliant scientist named Vincent [=McCarthy=] (Creator/TobyStephens), who is secretly funneling research funds to attempting to cure his terminally ill daughter. A new recruit from America named Eva Ava (Creator/CaityLotz) helps him make a breakthrough that allows him to make his first prototype.
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* IllGirl: Mary, Vincent's daughter, who is the entire reason he's participating in government weapons research. [[spoiler:Just before her death, he duplicates her brain functions using the same head rig used to make the Machine out of Eva.]]
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* NeverGivenAName: The protype AI is never called anything but "Machine".
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* NeverGivenAName: The protype prototype AI is never called anything but "Machine".
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In the future, there is a cold war with China, consisting of building more and more sophisticated intelligent machines. Britain's Ministry of Defense is funding the work of brilliant scientist named Vincent [=McCarthy=], [=McCarthy=] (Creator/TobyStephens), who is secretly funneling research funds to attempting to cure his terminally ill daughter. A new recruit from America named Eva helps him make a breakthrough that allows him to make his first prototype.
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* TheNameless: The protype AI is never called anything but "Machine".
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* TheNameless: NeverGivenAName: The protype AI is never called anything but "Machine".
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Thomson requests Machine to do for him what he wants, which seems to imply sexual favours. When McCarthy finds Machine again, she is traumatized, and first refuses to tell what happened. [[spoiler: Later she tells that Thomson coerced her to kill the Chinese agent.]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Thomson requests Machine to do for him what he wants, which seems to imply sexual favours. When McCarthy [=McCarthy=] finds Machine again, she is traumatized, and first refuses to tell what happened. [[spoiler: Later she tells that Thomson coerced her to kill the Chinese agent.]]
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* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler: Mary, Vincent's daughter]] who is used as a bargaining chip to compel Vincent's obedience.
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* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler: Mary, Vincent's daughter]] who is used as a bargaining chip to compel Vincent's obedience.obedience.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Thomson requests Machine to do for him what he wants, which seems to imply sexual favours. When McCarthy finds Machine again, she is traumatized, and first refuses to tell what happened. [[spoiler: Later she tells that Thomson coerced her to kill the Chinese agent.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Thomson requests Machine to do for him what he wants, which seems to imply sexual favours. When McCarthy finds Machine again, she is traumatized, and first refuses to tell what happened. [[spoiler: Later she tells that Thomson coerced her to kill the Chinese agent.]]
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* BigBad: Director Thomson decides to use the Machine as a weapon against her creator's wishes.
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* BigBad: Director Thomson decides to use the Machine as a weapon against her creator's wishes.wishes, and later [[spoiler:holds the brain recording of Vincent's dead little girl hostage]] to get him to obey.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: The Machine herself, for awhile.
* BreakTheCutie: Thompson's plan for turning a childlike android into a weapon consists of [[spoiler:having her murder the Chinese agent who killed Eva, on whom she was modeled, telling her that the man will kill Vincent if she doesn't intervene]].
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The research facility itself, where the bulk of the action takes place.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: The implant soldiers, and later the Machine, all have these.
* GovernmentConspiracy: The British government is covering up the fates of wounded soldiers in its program. One soldier's mother stands outside the gates of the complex, accosting anybody who goes in to learn the fate of her son.
* IllGirl: Mary, Vincent's daughter, who is the entire reason he's participating in government weapons research. [[spoiler:Just before her death, he duplicates her brain functions using the same head rig used to make the Machine out of Eva.]]
* InstantExpert: The Machine installs some programs at Thompson's urging, which turn out to be a suite of combat and infiltration skills. What captures her imagination about it, though? "I can speak other languages!"
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: The Machine herself, for awhile.
* BreakTheCutie: Thompson's plan for turning a childlike android into a weapon consists of [[spoiler:having her murder the Chinese agent who killed Eva, on whom she was modeled, telling her that the man will kill Vincent if she doesn't intervene]].
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The research facility itself, where the bulk of the action takes place.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: The implant soldiers, and later the Machine, all have these.
* GovernmentConspiracy: The British government is covering up the fates of wounded soldiers in its program. One soldier's mother stands outside the gates of the complex, accosting anybody who goes in to learn the fate of her son.
* IllGirl: Mary, Vincent's daughter, who is the entire reason he's participating in government weapons research. [[spoiler:Just before her death, he duplicates her brain functions using the same head rig used to make the Machine out of Eva.]]
* InstantExpert: The Machine installs some programs at Thompson's urging, which turn out to be a suite of combat and infiltration skills. What captures her imagination about it, though? "I can speak other languages!"
* TheNameless: The protype AI is never called anything but "Machine".
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* TheNameless: RoboRomance: With the complication that he's her father figure and brain donor's former coworker, and she's an unstable android intended for international wetwork.
* RobotGirl: Theprotype AI Machine.
* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler: Mary, Vincent's daughter]] who isnever called anything but "Machine".used as a bargaining chip to compel Vincent's obedience.
* RobotGirl: The
* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler: Mary, Vincent's daughter]] who is
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'''''The Machine''''' is a 2013 Science fiction film written by Caradog W. James.
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* BigBad: Director ThomsonThomson decides to use the Machine as a weapon against her creator's wishes.
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In the future, there is a cold war with China, consisting of building more and more sophisticated intelligent machines. Britain's Ministry of Defense is funding the work of brilliant scientist named Vincent McCarthy, [=McCarthy=], who is secretly funneling research funds to attempting to cure his terminally ill daughter. A new recruit from America named Eva helps him make a breakthrough that allows him to make his first prototype.
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* BadassAdorable: Machine is generally a friendly, passive being, who inherited Eva's fear of spiders and clowns, and has a childlike fascination with the world. She's also stronger than steel and can kill a man with just one finger (and does so ''twice'').
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* JustAMachine: Unfortunately, proving Machine is a thinking being simply convinces the director that it is way too dangerous to let live.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Inverted. The AI doesn't want to kill anyone, but the director of the project forces it to do so with threats of activating its self-destruct.
* ReplacementGoldfish: The Machine for Eva. Vincent wants to follow up with his daughter.
* TheNameless: The protype AI is never called anything but "Machine"
* ReplacementGoldfish: The Machine for Eva. Vincent wants to follow up with his daughter.
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''The Machine'' is a 2013 Science fiction film written by Caradog W. James.
In the future, there is a cold war with China, consisting of building more and more sophisticated intelligent machines. Britain's Ministry of Defense is funding the work of brilliant scientist Vincent McCarthy, who is secretly funneling research funds to attempting to cure his terminally ill daughter. A new recruit from America named Eva helps him make a breakthrough that allows him to make his first prototype.
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!! The movie contains examples of:
AIIsACrapshoot: Inverted. The AI doesn't want to kill anyone, but the director of the project forces it to do so with threats of activating its self-destruct.
ReplacementGoldfish: The Machine for Eva. Vincent wants to follow up with his daughter.
TheNameless: The protype AI is never called anything but "Machine"
