Monsters of Man

A robotics firm seeking a valuable military supply contract joins forces with a corrupt CIA operative to run an unauthorized field test of its combat machines. Four armed prototypes are sent into a remote drug-producing area in the Golden Triangle, on the assumption that the people they kill will be traffickers nobody will notice. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission instead witness the attack, and the machines are turned on them.

Mark Toia directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Hand, and also produced alongside Pam Collis and Keri Grant. The cast includes Neal McDonough as Major, Brett Tutor as Mason, Jose Rosete as Boller, David Haverty as Kroger, Paul Haapaniemi as Jordan and Ryan Hough as Jantz. The film was shot in Australia, Cambodia and the United States, and its reported budget was 2 million US dollars.

Monsters of Man runs 132 minutes and mixes action with science fiction, built around artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons and the question of who answers for them. On IMDb it holds 5.4 out of 10 from roughly 9,200 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.4 out of 10 from about 450 votes, a smaller and more favourable sample.