Zone 414

Zone 414

In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.

  • Released: 2021-09-03
  • Runtime: 98 minutes
  • Genre: Mystery, Thrillers
  • Stars: Guy Pearce, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Travis Fimmel, Jonathan Aris, Colin Salmon, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Ned Dennehy, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Olwen Fouéré
  • Director: Andrew Baird
 Comments
  • MissyTheCat - 12 December 2023
    Blade Runner made during the recession
    This film is trying really, really hard to be and look like Blade Runner. But it didn't have the budget to pull it off or even the talent it seems. How much it looks like Blade Runner (or tries to) is amusing. The story with androids is also familiar, but this time the android knows she's an android, so I guess that's a twist.

    The basic premise is this guy (Guy Pierce) is a former marine/police office and now private eye is hired by a futuristic Elon Musk type who has a play ground - Zone 414 - for people to go visit that is full of androids to do anything with except kill them. The catch is his daughter has run away to this place so he hires Guy Pierce to find her and bring her home. The place with androids looks just like Blade Runner, only more run down, smaller and lower budget. Why someone would want to live out a fantasy in this dump I don't know, but then it wouldn't look like Blade Runner, so there it is.

    Our hero goes to Zone 414, it's entrance guarded by rejects from The Road Warrior, to find the daughter. It takes him speaking to exactly three different people to find her. Why the dad couldn't find her, who knows. Anyways, while in Zone 414 our hero meets in an android, Jane, who knows she's an android and wants a better life, so she goes with our hero in hopes of leaving. Two stops later, mystery solved on the daughter. There is a bit more to the film, and a not too surprising twist. Along the way Guy Pierce's American accent falters from time to time as he does his best to earn his paycheck.

    The script seems like it must have been 30-45 pages long and then stretched out to its run time of just over 1 1/2 hours.

    Should you give this a try? If you're a sci-fi fan and can put up with some pretty cringy parts, then you might find it entertaining. If you have a higher bar for cinema, you'll want to take a pass on this.
  • danieljfarthing - 28 November 2022
    Decent near-future sci-fi... despite being a shameless "Blade Runner" mini
    In near-future sci-fi "Zone 414" grizzled private dick Guy Pearce (solid again) is hired by mogul brothers Travis Fimmel (superb - a rising star) & Jonathan Aris to find Finmel's runaway daughter in the neon-lit & grimy 'Zone 414' where their company's humanoid robots 'interact' with wealthy clients. Pearce's guided by synthetic Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz (stunning) thru the seedy likes of Olwen Fouéré & Jorin Cooke, as he solves the mystery. Written by Bryan Edward Hill (well - tho clearly aping the likes of "Blade Runner") this was upcoming director Andrew Baird's debut (ahead of "One Way")... and with all the great performances he elicits in it, it sure is a good 'un.