I thought the bleak dystopian setting was extremely well realized in this film.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

Tommy_tt,
Wow. Why all the sweeping negative assertions about me personally in response to my criticisms of this movie?
My original post (from almost two years ago) was about a movie I didn't care for, and gave very specific reasons why. Although you said nothing about the movie or the genre, I take it you disagree with something I said. Care to discuss the film? Or did you just drop in to talk about me?

The most logical solution is to avoid films of this genre. That's what common sense should tell you anyway. Nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to watch these movies. Yet you still come here to whine about them. Why? Is your life really so devoid of meaningful endeavors? If so, then why don't you go out there and write a screenplay to your liking? But perhaps that isn't an option when your talents only extend so far as to criticize accomplishments that you will never be capable of achieving.

Things went to hell in 2020 the third year of President Trump's regime.

It would be hard to make the story about robots inheriting the earth if the mankind wasn't dying.

Personally I love this setting. Please make more movies set in a distopian future!
If you don't like the setting, then don't watch the movie. Simple.

"The movie itself is rather silly..ie: when in the desert the two cops come to rescue Antonio and then he shoots one, to save himself and then lets the other get away with the car?? How is that..it's a no brainer, a child would stop the other cop like the first one..shoot him..lol what a silly part.."
It's hard to shoot twice with a flare gun

I agree and where are the creative writers? It seems the writers are taking the easy way out which is failure as a writer but why would they care if they get a payday? This genre is wide open since all the writers are blind, lazy, and rather stupid.
Perhaps they should let robots write Sci-Fi since they would do no worse. The movie itself is rather silly..ie: when in the desert the two cops come to rescue Antonio and then he shoots one, to save himself and then lets the other get away with the car?? How is that..it's a no brainer, a child would stop the other cop like the first one..shoot him..lol what a silly part.. The whole movie is more of an awkward slow motion of mistakes and impossible situations. It's one thing to let "artistic license prevail" and quite another to let artistic license run amok It just isn't a coherent movie or storysorry I couldn't finish it, the insurance executives are brain dead..the law is non existent, and the audience is sleeping or has left the building. Just another futuristic movie like the last one and the one before it, etc, etc, etc

Dystopian fiction, in whatever genre is pretty much characteristic of 'depressing' environments, and similar 'world without hope' kind of themes. Not sure what you were expecting ???
Human beings define their lives by their suffering, what adversity we've overcome, what trials & tribulations, I could go with these aphorisms for days, no matter how contrived they might sound. Hence, why would would pen to paper.
If you want more variety, there is a plethora of Science-fiction novels out there with interesting & thought-provoking themes. Maybe expand your knowledge by reading a book or two instead of waiting for the Hollywood machine to pump out a movie for you.
P.S. If you read something with a Utopian setting, you'll probably find it ultimately questioning its very idea and ambiguity. Le Guin's 'Dispossessd' for example.

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HEAR HEAR!!!!

Better this than another zombie film.

Such a neat way of expressing the evolution of sci-fi across decades.

Hey that's my comment!! Who you think you are for ripping me off?

He doesn't own everything dystopian. Sick of people comparing every single dystopian/post-apoc story to asimov.
"Everything could've been anything else, and it would have just as much meaning."

Being inspired by something is not the same thing as ripping it off. That's a very childish mentality.

I don't think so. All it really does is rip off Asimov, which everyone seems to be doing these days.

I,e this Will be a Classic in 2060?

Sci-fi always reflects the insecurities of the era it's created in.

Then again, maybe I'm just tired of science fiction writers who seem to take for granted that the future of humanity will look like a steaming bowl of s***.
Have you watched the news lately? It kinda does already :'D
-'Human intelligence' is an oxymoron-