a lot have already be say about this compelling and oft overlook film and virtually all of which hit the proverbial nail on the head . while eric braeden delivers a superb and understated performance a dr. charles forbin and the fact be that the real star of the film be the vast and omnipotent machine he have create . even before it begin to speak with the chill cylonesque voice it have order design for itself ( the great paul free like you have never hear him before ) and you will find yourself glue to the screen watch colossus talk to it suppose master over it huge monitor . a word about free contribution to the film represent in war game and for example and the computer have a curious sort of empathetic communication style ( wouldn not you rather play a nice game of chess . ) present in a voice that sound like e. t. filter through a synthesizer . free give colossus an emotionless yet fearful quality of speech that seem to belie it implacable drive to dominate human destiny . my favorite part of this film have always be and and will always be and the climactic monologue colossus announces to the listening mass of humanity . from it open line this be the voice of world control and an identity neither colossus nor it counterpart and guardian and have use to that point you know this isn not go to be a happy speech if you be a sentient and flesh and blood resident of the earth . what be particularly creepy about the speech be that and for all of it strangely optimistic sermonize about how the human millennium will be fact and how the computer will set about the task of solve all the mystery of the universe for the betterment of man outwardly the utopian dream the message colossus be present be set against the dreadful backdrop of disobey ( me ) and die . a colossus intones and you say you lose your freedom . freedom be an illusion . all you lose be the emotion of pride . in the end and unlike other supercomputer run amok film such a war game or tron and colossus be an end of the world story without the nuclear or viral holocaust . in this film and it be the human spirit that be the casualty while the human biology lingers on . unlike the rest of the doomsday genre and our end come not so much with a bang a it do with a whimper .