When you forget to turn off your phone in the theater.
A Living Dog (2019) is about our new robotic overlords.
No, seriously! An experiment apparently out of control, the robots now hunt humans mostly by sound, so there’s no dialog to worry about – just a military deserter (or survivor), a really angry civilian with some mad electronics skills, and their pet.
Pet tactical nuke, that is.
And a bunch of 20 ton robots that can, paradoxically, sneak up on you without making a sound, an unsettling skill that really shouldn’t be permitted.
And the dog? Don’t buy the head fake.
So, once again the scientists are to blame for trying to make the world better, and the good guys, well, so-so guys have to go and clean up after them. If you like that, great. And this isn’t a bad take on it. But why would robots key in on sound rather than sight? It’s the little question marks like that which lessen the impact of this story.
But it’s not badly done.
