Zone 414′s rushed, confusing, science fiction familiarity tries to do too much and will disappoint viewers expecting deeper sociological examination.

| Apr 19, 2024

It’s hard to watch Zone 414 without being reminded that are so many other better options for dystopian sci-fi films that create far more depth and engaging stories.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 5, 2023

Guy Pearce (Mare of Easttown) struggles with a blue-collar Brooklyn accent while costar Matilda Lutz (Revenge) attempts to wrangle endless reams of expository dialogue in order to make this two-hander feel like something more than a double wank.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2021

What a waste of Pearce this movie is, requiring him to chase after baddies in underground car parks and run the gamut of facial expressions from glower to grimace.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2021

Audiences may very well enjoy the dark and brooding side of Guy Pearce and enjoy the aesthetic pulled from better material, but others may want to find something more original.

| Sep 13, 2021

The environments in Zone 414 are interesting and the story is enough of a curiosity to keep one engaged for its relatively short running time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2021

Listless and utterly lacking in energy or drama.

| Sep 11, 2021

Offering no individuality of its own, Zone 414 barely manages to stay afloat with its oft-repeated tropes, which come to a listless, foreseeable end.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 4, 2021

The premise is incredibly close to being Blade Runner-lite, with the final result being a mediocre slog, failing to capitalize on the potential it has in its hands.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 4, 2021

It is very much a Blade Runner inspired piece, but I enjoyed it. I was impressed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2021

The plot ... makes little sense, but along the way to its intriguing sort-of conclusion, we find ourselves sucked in, the unsettling pleasures ... enough to hold our attention.

| Sep 4, 2021

This good-looking sci-fi thriller has some fun set designs, but it also has a big "been there, done that" quality.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 3, 2021

Painfully dull and derivative.

| Sep 3, 2021

This lumbering British science-fiction thriller is more pretentious than provocative.

| Sep 3, 2021

Zone 414 portrays a world that is frighteningly possible. Humanity has perfected artificial intelligence. The rich can fulfill any deviant desire. It's gritty, low-tech industrial grime mirrors the ugliness of base instincts.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 3, 2021

For a movie about self-ware A.I., Zone 414 still ends up coming off as pretty lifeless.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 3, 2021

A bargain-basement, or really sub-bargain-basement, clone of 'Blade Runner, 'Zone 414' is visually tacky and almost infinitely dull.

| Original Score: D- | Sep 3, 2021

[T]he movie has nothing novel to show or tell us.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 2, 2021

"Zone 414" isn't a bad-looking film, fittingly apocalyptic, if generically stylized, thanks to cinematography by James Mather. Still, one wonders why this perfunctory techno-noir exists in the first place.

| Sep 2, 2021

The production focuses on the wrong ideas, trying to ape "Blade Runner" instead of building on certain concepts concerning android horrors and human compassion.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 1, 2021