The End of the Lonely Island (2017) Gu day zhong joie
IMDb meta-data is a runtime of 1h and 1m, rated 5.3 by 22 cinematizens.
Genre: SyFy.
DNA: People’s Republic of China.
Verdict: Huh?
Tagline: Windows 95 strikes again!
Chinese AI is the villain called TESS (aka Windows 95) which has unleashed a worldwide epidemic that kills all and for which there is no remedy. One response is to launch a deep space mission to find another planet to despoil and another is to wind back the clock somehow on the Lonely Island of the title where there is an abandoned research facility that might have a key, a cure, or an Act III. Our heroine goes to the island while her beau rides the rockets.
Now I may have muddled all that because I found it hard to follow, it being fast and cryptic, and short.
The cinematography is superb, and likewise the acting. I hardly recognised her from one emotional state to another. The chap shows less in a stoic kind of way. Plus I liked the street views of Shanghai.
However, I never did figure out the plot, despite what seemed to be good subtitles by an AI program! Sounds of irony off stage.
The intel on IMDb says it is an independent production, a rarity from the PRC.