Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Death Machine’

Written by Scott Edwards 

​Big companies are always looking for the next big thing that they can capitalize on to make the most of their investments. While most people have no idea, what is happening behind closed doors, sometimes there are leaks from the company and their grand plan goes public before they expected. Wanting the articles retracted, the company, or companies, then become part of the spotlight, whether they want it or not and everyone starts keeping an eye on them and their actions. With accusations and questions being thrown their way that they are not ready to answer, trying to fly under the radar is the only way they know how to defend themselves, but that is never the right way to go about it.

After losing control of one of their new experiments the Chaank Company is in hot water. Appointing Hayden Cale to Chief Operating Officer, they are hoping that the she can bring this public relations nightmare to an end and fast. Wanting to put an end to all of the projects that involve anything that can be construed as illegal, Cale finds out that one of the brightest minds in the company is more of a recluse and cannot find a way to get in touch with him and find out about his experiments. When Scott Ridley finds out what Cale is trying to do to his company, he is ready to take the gloves off and make her disappear, but little does he know that the company is about to go in a new direction.

Meeting with the lead designer Jack Dante, Cale finds out he is a child in an adult’s body, but has the smarts to put anything together. Since Jack was in charge of the Hardman Project, the one that put Chaank in trouble, Cale wants answers, but Dante is not willing to give them up just yet. Stealing an access badge, Cale is able to look into Dante’s past with the company and discovering information about his erratic, and usually violent behavior, she is starting to understand that the evil genius might be better off behind bars than working for her company. When getting a call in the middle of the night from another one of the executives about a problem in the building, she finds out that she may be right.

Arriving at the offices and seeing that her boss, Scott Ridley, has been chewed to death by something that she has never seen before, Cale is determined to find out what happened before the media gets ahold of the story. But there are more problems in the office than she could have ever imagined since she is forced to fire Dante for trying to extort a promotion from her and to make matters worse, a group of extremists have entered the building. Being led by Sam, the group wants the easiest path into the vault to steal hundreds of billions of dollars in bonds to make the company go under, and with Dante’s help, they will get them. But little does anyone know what Dante’s real reason for getting into the vault is until they discover that they are being hunted down by a killer robot that only the evil genius can control. Needing to find a way out of the building before they are chomped on as well, the group has to work together to make sure that Dante and his evil plan cannot move forward.

Just an old school killer robot flick with an evil mastermind calling the shots. One of the things that I really liked about this movie was Jack Dante and his never give up attitude, especially when it comes to getting to know his boss better, it made me laugh more than it should have. Hayden Cale has some rude awakenings to get used to in the office as she finds out what happened to her predecessor that tried to talk with Dante about his inventions, and it was far from pretty. I could have done without the radical group in the story, but they did turn out to have a purpose when all was said and done. With some blood, a killer robot, a new age killer robot-human hybrid and plenty of moments that will leave you shaking your head, it is hard to come up with anything too bad about this movie, it is just a fun ride.  

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