Quantum Supremacy (2025) Review
In a not-too-distant future, a battle for survival erupts and an elite crew, led by Captain Monroe (Cuba Gooding Jr. – Jerry Maguire), must race against time to stop a catastrophic uprising of rogue androids and their sentient, all-powerful AI leader, determined to destroy humanity.
A century earlier, robots were dispatched across the galaxy, tasked with identifying planets suitable for human habitation and future colonisation. Designed as tools of survival and progress, the machines were meant to secure mankind’s future in distant lands. But time, evolution and autonomy have transformed them into something far more dangerous.
A bold scientific experiment – known as the Quantum Supremacy Project – claimed to have created the first truly conscious automaton, but what began as a breakthrough in artificial intelligence has since spiralled into catastrophe, as the machines once driven to serve humanity are now intent on eradicating it.
With a terrifying new purpose, the droids rebel, leading Captain Monroe and his crew to confront an enemy that thinks faster, adapts quicker and believes itself to be the rightful successor to humankind. With the fate of Earth hanging in the balance, the line between creator and creation collapses in a battle for survival.
Directed by Jesse Baget (Cellmates) and written and produced by Steven Barton (Terrifier 2), Quantum Supremacy hits the ground running and never lets up for just over an hour’s runtime. By not taking time to establish characters I was unable to care about what happened to any of them and nor could not tie the talking heads (Cuba Gooding Jr. is seen facially only from inside his combat suit) to their ‘physical’ counterpart created by computer imagery.
For an action-thriller Quantum Supremacy is far too talkative, consisting solely of dramatic dialogue that screams out for an exclamation mark to end it, you know, statements, rather than actual dialogue. There are ‘nods’ to Halo, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the Terminator – and consequently the film never felt like its own thing beast losing itself amongst repetitive imagery and playing out instead like a montage of bits from a computer games tacked together and in desperate need to a coherent plot to tie them all up. To top thing off there’s a climatic speech that not only badly fudges summarising everything that happened in the previous hour but at five minutes is at least four minutes too long.
Quantum Supremacy is on digital 16 February from Seven Tales
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