"Although the opening sequences inside a high-tech facility appear inevitably leaden and antiquated (the retrievable aluminum gangway looks shaky and shoddy, the heavy door closes in a glacial pace), the film's analog-era computers are authentic (provided by Control Data Corporation), video phone meetings are a novelty then, and its omnipresent surveillance cameras are sharply prescient. Out of the film's pervasive, all-serious play-acting and clinical decision-making, a soft touch only emerges when under 24-hour surveillance, Forbin and his colleague Dr. Cleo Markham (a fresh-faced Clark) are impelled to spend their bedroom time in the buff. COLOSSUS is a faithful if arid adaptation of cardboard characters facing a monster beyond their ken, its main value is to bring wariness to mankind about the irreversible advancement of artificial intelligence, however scarcely credible the story is, a fail-safe precaution becomes prerequisite in furtherance of technology revolution."
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