Colossus: The Forbin Project
PG

Colossus: The Forbin Project

This is the dawning of the Age of Colossus (where peace is compulsory... freedom is forbidden... and Man's greatest invention could be Man's greatest mistake).

1970 • 100 min • Science Fiction · Thriller

Our family guide

Best from age 10
85
Movie Knight Score
269 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
  • 70 Audience · 267 · 49%

Wakati Marekani inakabidhi ulinzi wake wa nyuklia kwa AI ya hali ya juu, haraka sana inajitegemea na kuchukua udhibiti, na kulazimisha binadamu kukabiliana na uumbaji wao wenyewe. Mwanasayansi anajitahidi kuelewa nia za kompyuta hiyo kubwa huku hatima ya dunia ikiwa mashakani.

Violence & peril
3/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
1/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
4/10

Heads up

  • Majadiliano kuhusu vita vya nyuklia na udhibiti wa kimataifa
  • Nyakati za mvutano na mashaka AI inapothibitisha nguvu zake
  • Filamu ina sauti nzito bila ucheshi mwingi

What it models well

  • Udadhisi wa kielimu na kutafuta maarifa
  • Kutilia shaka maadili ya maendeleo ya kiteknolojia
  • Ujanja katika kipindi cha shida

Talk about it after

  • Nafasi ya teknolojia katika maisha yetu
  • Kusawazisha ubunifu na tahadhari
  • Maana ya kuwa na akili kweli

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Top billed cast

Director: Joseph Sargent • Crew: James Bridges

Trailers & clips

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) - Official Trailer (HD)

John Landis on COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT

Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

**Great movie, still relevant today** I just saw this movie for the first time, and it is an intelligent and well-done sci-fi thriller. It deals with AI sentience, and almost can be seen as the beginnings of Gort (from another excellent sci-fi film from 1951 called The Day The Earth Stood Still)\ \ If you're not sure about watching this, just watch it, you might be surprised and find a hidden, thought-provoking, gem!

Recommended

This film is an overlooked classic. Very rarely seen on TV. It is both a science fiction tale and a Cold War drama. The United States creates a super computer to control its defence systems. This advanced machine has its own intelligence so that it can absorb the mass of data required to manage the nuclear arsenal. Dr Charles Forbin the creator of this computer called Colossus.…

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