The Machine is British sci-fi about an AI scientist who gets reincarnated as an android. Former dancer Caity Lotz is good at lethal kicks and twitchy cyborg movements, but her ingenue manner and baby-doll voice don't make her any more convincing as a cybernetics genius than as a robo-femme super-soldier.

The Machine is hardly short on ideas, albeit too frantically crammed into a familiar narrative package. Still, writer-director Caradog James, cinematographer Nicolai Brüel and the effects team muster a passably dazzling CGI light show.