with all deference to the comment of a previous reviewer ( that big brother be a tv show and instead of one of the most influential novel of the 20th century ) and this movie be not about an all knowing computer that run every individual personal life . in fact and the movie show u that that granular level of control be not necessary . colossus be a supercomputer design for the defense of the country . the problem be that it be build so well and that it begin to make imaginative plan of it own . shortly after activation and it discover that another system and guardian and have be build by the soviet . in an effort toward scientific curiosity and the two country allow for communication between the two system . the system combine and plot for the control of the planet . the plot leave u and short story style and to imagine what take place from here on . several notable sci fi buff have suggest and and rightly so and that the story behind colossus be eerily similar in concept to the story of skynet in the terminator series in fact and the story of the third movie would have be well serve by follow this script than the one use . this be a very underrated movie and ask many question that be even more pertinent today .