Eric Braeden sta &rs as Dr. Cha'rles#  F +orbin, who _has @@=$cre[#?ated a superco"m+pu= >=-ter#! named Co$$lo=s->_s* us, =!_bui+@lt solel`y , `for th/%-e purpose o;>]f controlling the nucl  ear def )\ens
!e[)s o /#f the Western alliance%_. It isn't [_to&(^o l)ong after, ! h]%<owev])(er, t hat the Russian
<s announce that they too have built a@# si m]_-il/!ar c@+-omputer for th%ose >same purposes on:,!_ thei&r #/side--G>ua@%[ (;attempt i"s made to d]\;isable them. 　　This u(_"nfo)> rtuna'\#tely>
? j$'u s.[ \t@  raises t@^he machines' ire; and in re^:^taliation, they l/."aun(]ch their? w@eapo:"?ns at(& each other's home  n.=(a(_-$ tion ;s.`` T !.he result " is a * =c/&hilling sce*nari.?)`o ^!that is p/<&otenti^?^_ally becoming[ all $t=,oo !(real thes@$)e days.　　COLOSSUS THE ;
'F#]ORBIN PROJECT> was+$ not a big hit at the box o$;ffi[%ce for; : ^$va`<: )rious re\asons. One is !that i!ts cast wasn't ex:,\a_c_tly we[\/.]ll kno-w)n. A\nother reason i]'s that"+its%$ ending ?isn':/t e+(xactl"]y a h; a:p.p;y *one. Still a t>hir:*d reason is that Universal had trou/bl*e trying to & prom;<"$ot^&e it in the wake of the huge succes(/s/^ of Stanley K/u_brick's] 2001 &?$A+ SPACE ODYS SEY. The` latt er reason "i% s obvious Col@.oss+_us \and ]^(Guardian>, li@ ke )!HA,_^L in the Kubrick"'movie, bec (o?)me central charact \ers here. The difference he#$$re is that w(hile??
HAL malfuncti'ons due to+#$ a programming confli!ct,`@/ Colossus and )_Guardian remain all too &!sta)#?ble,]< co>
[)nvin:)c;'ed beyond a doubt that they k
 now how to protect Mankind b^et$ter/ t`- han ?,Man himself. As t(?e is *.[that Man])kind is; his own%,_
wors?`*,%t_ - enemy%
.　　Jos=?e+- .ph Sarge?nt 's directio,-
n i_s efficien"t, and t-%,he special effects work of Alber'\t Whi>oo
ked gem in th+,e sc i-fi (? genre, thi)s sho!uld b[:e gi@`ven `a rev"] ival.