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--> ''No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect mankind - until the drone police became the perfect enemy.'' - '''Tallis'''
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-->-- '''Tallis'''
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Not to be confused with the 2023 film ''Film/LastSentinel''.
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Not to be confused with the 2023 film ''Film/LastSentinel''.''[[Film/LastSentinel2023 Last Sentinel]]''.
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Not to be confused with the 2023 film ''Film/LastSentinel''.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Tallis doesn't shy from shooting a female technician who tries to signal the drones after he warned her ({{in the back}} too).
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Tallis openly stares down at her when The Girl, an attractive young woman, is topless sponge-bathing herself from a balcony behind her. It seems she knows and doesn't care either.
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** Later on in the film, Tallis managed to retrieve Colonel Norton's gattling gun, which turns out to have the same AI system installed, is entirely sentient, and talks with the BadassBaritone voice of Keith David.
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** Later on in the film, Tallis managed to retrieve Colonel Norton's gattling gun, which turns out to have the same AI system installed, is entirely sentient, and talks with the BadassBaritone baritone voice of Keith David.
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: The Girl sponge bathes herself wearing only panties as Tallis watches with her seen from the back, and her breasts are shown too [[{{Sideboob}} from the side]] while doing this.
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* ScaryBlackMan: There is Tallis' superior, Colonel Norton as played by Keith David, an eager BloodKnight (along with his [[TalkingWeapon sapient gatling gun]]) is so into violence it's kind of creepy. Downplayed with Tallis' TokenBlackFriend Anchilles, who kicks quite a bit of ass but is rather affable and not really scary.
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* ScaryBlackMan: There is Tallis' superior, Colonel Norton as played by Keith David, an eager BloodKnight (along with his [[TalkingWeapon sapient gatling gun]]) is so into fond of violence it's kind of pretty creepy. Downplayed with Tallis' TokenBlackFriend Anchilles, who kicks quite a bit of ass but is rather affable and not really scary.
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* RobotWar: The main premise of the film. Humanity created robotic police to fight rising crime, but then rebelled and wiped most out. Only a very few survivors are still fighting against them.
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* RobotWar: The main premise of the film. Humanity created robotic police to fight rising crime, but then they rebelled and mostly wiped most humans out. Only a very few survivors are still fighting against them.them when the story begins.
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* NoNameGiven: The Girl, played by Katee Sackhoff, is never identified by name. The end credits just lists her as "The Girl".
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* NoNameGiven: The Girl, played by Katee Sackhoff, is never identified by name. The end credits just lists list her as "The Girl".
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* BattleCouple: Tallis and the Girl kiss after having an obvious mutual attraction, then possibly have sex offscreen. Afterwards, the two continue fighting the drones as a team.
* BloodKnight: Colonel Norton and his [[TalkingWeapon sapient gatling gun]] extol fighting, longing to die a glorious death. The latter wants nothing more than to simply gun down however many enemy soldiers that it's possible for him, before killing a last few by triggering a bomb.
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* ChildSoldier: As shown in multiple of Tallis' childhood flashback, he was trained since a child to be a soldier and fighter, alongside a dozen other children.
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* ChildSoldier: As shown in multiple of Tallis' childhood flashback, flashbacks, he was trained since a child to be a soldier and fighter, soldier, alongside a dozen other children.children.
* {{Cyborg}}: Tallis and other soldiers from his unit had cybernetic eye implants. The Super Drones appear to be partly biological too, since when the last unmasks he has a face that although inhuman still looks organic.
* {{Cyborg}}: Tallis and other soldiers from his unit had cybernetic eye implants. The Super Drones appear to be partly biological too, since when the last unmasks he has a face that although inhuman still looks organic.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The drones have terrible aim, and can't even hit Tallis or the Girl from less than ten meters away. It really makes the audience wonder how did they manage to win a war against humans and enslave all of mankind given how incompetent they are...
* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler: Subverted, the drone army deactivates after Tallis kills its AI, but a small number of Red Drones, and their leader, the Super Drone, continues marching after Tallis]].
* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler: Subverted, the drone army deactivates after Tallis kills its AI, but a small number of Red Drones, and their leader, the Super Drone, continues marching after Tallis]].
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The drones have terrible aim, and can't even hit Tallis or the Girl from less than ten meters away. It really makes the audience wonder how did they manage to win a war against humans and enslave all of mankind given how incompetent they are...
are. This appears to be PlotArmor, as their aim is fine against supporting human characters.
* KeystoneArmy:[[spoiler: Subverted, [[spoiler:Subverted; the drone army deactivates after Tallis kills its AI, but a small number of Red Drones, and their leader, the Super Drone, continues continue marching after Tallis]].Tallis since they operate autonomously.]]
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* RobotWar: The main premise of the film.
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* ScaryBlackMan: There is Tallis' superior, Colonel Norton as played by Keith David. Downplayed with Tallis' TokenBlackFriend Anchilles, who kicks quite a bit of ass but is rather affable and not really scary.
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* RobotWar: The main premise of the film. Humanity created robotic police to fight rising crime, but then rebelled and wiped most out. Only a very few survivors are still fighting against them.
* ScaryBlackMan: There is Tallis' superior, Colonel Norton as played by KeithDavid.David, an eager BloodKnight (along with his [[TalkingWeapon sapient gatling gun]]) is so into violence it's kind of creepy. Downplayed with Tallis' TokenBlackFriend Anchilles, who kicks quite a bit of ass but is rather affable and not really scary.
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* SuperSoldier: Tallis, and most of his comrades. Being trained [[ChildSoldiers from childhood]] to fight and having [[{{Cyborg}} cybernetic eyes]], they are explicitly described as the last hope when all other forces have failed. They fail too at first, but [[spoiler:Tallis manages to save the day even when the rest are dead, with only one person to help him]].
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Tallis finds out some human technicians are willingly aiding the drones (they helped to create them). A man he speaks with believes they will usher in "nirvana" as perfect, orderly beings. Wiping out most humans to do so isn't something he cares about apparently if a utopia is achieved.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Tallis doesn't shy from shooting a female technician who tries to signal the drones after he warned her ({{in the back}} too).
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, humans lost a war against the drone police, created to serve humanity in the first place. When Tallis, a grizzled ex-soldier and survivor rescues an amnesiac young girl and takes her in as his partner, they will have to fight their way out against a seemingly endless horde of mechanical enemies.
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, humans lost a war against the drone police, created to serve humanity in the first place. When Tallis, a grizzled ex-soldier and survivor rescues an amnesiac young girl woman and takes her in as his partner, they will have to fight their way out against a seemingly endless horde of mechanical enemies.
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:As part of the distraction for the climactic StormingTheCastle, Tallis wires a truckload of explosives for Colonel Norton's A.I.-controlled minigun to set off if it's overrun by Drones, with full understanding that it's going to be destroyed alongside the enemy. The A.I. accepts it and when it inevitably does get surrounded by Drones, it sets off the bomb gleefully.]]
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''The Last Sentinel'' is a 2007 post-apocalypse sci-fi action film directed by Creator/JesseVJohnson, Don Wilson (from the ''Film/{{Bloodfist}}'' series, all of them), Creator/KateeSackhoff, Creator/KeithDavid and Creator/BokeemWoodbine.
TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, humanity lost a war against the drone police, created to serve humanity in the first place. When Tallis, a grizzled, ex-soldier and survivor rescues a survivor and takes her in as his partner, they will have to fight their way out against a seemingly endless horde of mechanical enemies.
TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, humanity lost a war against the drone police, created to serve humanity in the first place. When Tallis, a grizzled, ex-soldier and survivor rescues a survivor and takes her in as his partner, they will have to fight their way out against a seemingly endless horde of mechanical enemies.
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''The Last Sentinel'' is a 2007 post-apocalypse sci-fi action film directed by Creator/JesseVJohnson, starring Don Wilson (from the ''Film/{{Bloodfist}}'' series, all of them), Creator/KateeSackhoff, Creator/KeithDavid and Creator/BokeemWoodbine.
TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture,humanity humans lost a war against the drone police, created to serve humanity in the first place. When Tallis, a grizzled, grizzled ex-soldier and survivor rescues a survivor an amnesiac young girl and takes her in as his partner, they will have to fight their way out against a seemingly endless horde of mechanical enemies.
TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture,
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* SmartGun: Angel, Tallis' assault rifle, has self-aware A.I. and helps Tallis with tactical support. Colonel Norton's minigun has a similar system and Tallis uses it in the final battle by setting it up as a SentryGun and asking it to blow away as many hostiles as it can as a distraction.
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* ScaryBlackMan: There is Tallis' superior, Colonel Norton as played by Keith David. Downplayed with Tallis' BlackBestFriend Anchilles, who kicks quite a bit of ass but is rather affable and not really scary.
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* ScaryBlackMan: There is Tallis' superior, Colonel Norton as played by Keith David. Downplayed with Tallis' BlackBestFriend TokenBlackFriend Anchilles, who kicks quite a bit of ass but is rather affable and not really scary.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Tallis' BlackBestFriend, Anchilles, is set up as a major character who kicks ass alongside Tallis in a big shootout against multiple drones, surviving an urban battle and forming a two-man-army with his friend... but right after all the action is over, a stray drone machine guns him dead, and Tallis has to haul Anchilles' dead body behind him while fending off the drones.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Tallis' BlackBestFriend, TokenBlackFriend, Anchilles, is set up as a major character who kicks ass alongside Tallis in a big shootout against multiple drones, surviving an urban battle and forming a two-man-army with his friend... but right after all the action is over, a stray drone machine guns him dead, and Tallis has to haul Anchilles' dead body behind him while fending off the drones.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: Prior to their final confrontation, the Super Drone offers Tallis this as an option. It doesn't work.
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--> ''No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect mankind - until the drone police became the perfect enemy.'' - '''Tallis'''
''The Last Sentinel'' is a 2007 post-apocalypse sci-fi action film directed by Creator/JesseVJohnson, Don Wilson (from the ''Film/{{Bloodfist}}'' series, all of them), Creator/KateeSackhoff, Creator/KeithDavid and Creator/BokeemWoodbine.
TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, humanity lost a war against the drone police, created to serve humanity in the first place. When Tallis, a grizzled, ex-soldier and survivor rescues a survivor and takes her in as his partner, they will have to fight their way out against a seemingly endless horde of mechanical enemies.
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!! The Last Sentinel contains examples of:
* AbandonedWarehouse: A shootout climaxing the second act takes place in one of these.
* ActionGirl: The... Girl. Who can kick plenty of ass and forms a BattleCouple with Tallis in the second half of the movie.
* ActionSurvivor: The Girl again, when Tallis retrieves her, she is unconscious and the SoleSurvivor of a failed LaResistance ambush against a platoon of drones.
* AfterTheEnd: Much of the film takes place not long after humanity lost a war against drones created to serve mankind, with small pockets of LaResistance occasionally trying to fight back, but unsuccessfully.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The drone program was initially used as means to suppress crime in the United States. But the AI behind the drones ultimately decides to overthrow its creators.
* BackToBackBadasses: Tallis and his friend Anchilles, until the latter bites it. Then Tallis and the Girl forms a BattleCouple against the drones.
* BadassCape: Worn on Tallis throughout the later half of the movie, and also the Girl after she TookALevelInBadass.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Tallis' BlackBestFriend, Anchilles, is set up as a major character who kicks ass alongside Tallis in a big shootout against multiple drones, surviving an urban battle and forming a two-man-army with his friend... but right after all the action is over, a stray drone machine guns him dead, and Tallis has to haul Anchilles' dead body behind him while fending off the drones.
* BoobyTrap: Tallis uses this method to get the drop on a drone army hunting him in a darkened warehouse, using claymores, landmines, and some assistance from Colonel Norton's AI-controlled gatling gun.
* ChildSoldier: As shown in multiple of Tallis' childhood flashback, he was trained since a child to be a soldier and fighter, alongside a dozen other children.
* EliteMook: Elite Drones, which are clad in [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority red armour]] instead of the standard black. They are also much deadlier and gives Tallis a much harder time in the final battle.
* EyeScream: Subverted with Anchilles; after he dies, Tallis has to use his dagger to dig out the implant in Anchilles' eye to prevent the drones from tracking them, but he's removing the eyeball of a corpse. [[spoiler: However it was played straight when Tallis has to remove his '''own''' eyeball near the end of the film when the Super Drone and a few red drones are tracking him down]].
* FacelessGoons: The drones doesn't have any feature visible on their faces; lower tier-mooks have black face-plates with two dark eye-lenses which are a stand-in for eyes, while the red EliteMooks only have a chevron-shaped slit where their eyes and nose are supposed to be.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The drones have terrible aim, and can't even hit Tallis or the Girl from less than ten meters away. It really makes the audience wonder how did they manage to win a war against humans and enslave all of mankind given how incompetent they are...
* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler: Subverted, the drone army deactivates after Tallis kills its AI, but a small number of Red Drones, and their leader, the Super Drone, continues marching after Tallis]].
* TheLastTitle
* MachineBlood: Regular drone mooks bleed neon-blue blood, while their red-coloured superiors bleed white.
* MechaMooks: The Drone Police are entirely robotic and artificial, and are powered by a single AI. Although their designs are at least somewhat close to human anatomy, since Tallis managed to kill a few with his dagger via SlashedThroat.
* NoNameGiven: The Girl, played by Katee Sackhoff, is never identified by name. The end credits just lists her as "The Girl".
* RobotWar: The main premise of the film.
* PineappleSurprise:
** While fighting a red drone, Tallis managed to remove the pin from one of the drone's grenade before shoving the drone into water. BOOM.
** Later on, [[spoiler: after digging out his own eyeball to remove the tracking implant]], Tallis uses said implant together with a few grenades, sans pins, to set up an explosive trap for three red drones.
* ScaryBlackMan: There is Tallis' superior, Colonel Norton as played by Keith David. Downplayed with Tallis' BlackBestFriend Anchilles, who kicks quite a bit of ass but is rather affable and not really scary.
* SpoilerCover: That cover above spoils the fact that [[spoiler: Tallis would lose one of his eyes near the end of the film]].
* SuperSoldier: Tallis, and most of his comrades.
* SwordFight: The final showdown between Tallis and the Super Drone. [[spoiler: Tallis wins by scoring a DiagonalCut]].
* TalkingWeapon:
** Tallis' M16 machine gun, named Angel, is a sci-fi example with an AI voice installed in her system, allowing her to chit-chat back and forth with Tallis throughout the film. Yes, the talking machine gun is an actual character.
** Later on in the film, Tallis managed to retrieve Colonel Norton's gattling gun, which turns out to have the same AI system installed, is entirely sentient, and talks with the BadassBaritone voice of Keith David.
* TrainingMontage: Shortly after Tallis and the Girl survived a drone assault together, Tallis has to train her on fighting and shooting. Which is somewhat unnecessary, given how in the earlier shootout scene she seems perfectly capable of kicking ass without his teaching.
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--> ''No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect mankind - until the drone police became the perfect enemy.'' - '''Tallis'''
''The Last Sentinel'' is a 2007 post-apocalypse sci-fi action film directed by Creator/JesseVJohnson, Don Wilson (from the ''Film/{{Bloodfist}}'' series, all of them), Creator/KateeSackhoff, Creator/KeithDavid and Creator/BokeemWoodbine.
TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, humanity lost a war against the drone police, created to serve humanity in the first place. When Tallis, a grizzled, ex-soldier and survivor rescues a survivor and takes her in as his partner, they will have to fight their way out against a seemingly endless horde of mechanical enemies.
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!! The Last Sentinel contains examples of:
* AbandonedWarehouse: A shootout climaxing the second act takes place in one of these.
* ActionGirl: The... Girl. Who can kick plenty of ass and forms a BattleCouple with Tallis in the second half of the movie.
* ActionSurvivor: The Girl again, when Tallis retrieves her, she is unconscious and the SoleSurvivor of a failed LaResistance ambush against a platoon of drones.
* AfterTheEnd: Much of the film takes place not long after humanity lost a war against drones created to serve mankind, with small pockets of LaResistance occasionally trying to fight back, but unsuccessfully.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The drone program was initially used as means to suppress crime in the United States. But the AI behind the drones ultimately decides to overthrow its creators.
* BackToBackBadasses: Tallis and his friend Anchilles, until the latter bites it. Then Tallis and the Girl forms a BattleCouple against the drones.
* BadassCape: Worn on Tallis throughout the later half of the movie, and also the Girl after she TookALevelInBadass.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Tallis' BlackBestFriend, Anchilles, is set up as a major character who kicks ass alongside Tallis in a big shootout against multiple drones, surviving an urban battle and forming a two-man-army with his friend... but right after all the action is over, a stray drone machine guns him dead, and Tallis has to haul Anchilles' dead body behind him while fending off the drones.
* BoobyTrap: Tallis uses this method to get the drop on a drone army hunting him in a darkened warehouse, using claymores, landmines, and some assistance from Colonel Norton's AI-controlled gatling gun.
* ChildSoldier: As shown in multiple of Tallis' childhood flashback, he was trained since a child to be a soldier and fighter, alongside a dozen other children.
* EliteMook: Elite Drones, which are clad in [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority red armour]] instead of the standard black. They are also much deadlier and gives Tallis a much harder time in the final battle.
* EyeScream: Subverted with Anchilles; after he dies, Tallis has to use his dagger to dig out the implant in Anchilles' eye to prevent the drones from tracking them, but he's removing the eyeball of a corpse. [[spoiler: However it was played straight when Tallis has to remove his '''own''' eyeball near the end of the film when the Super Drone and a few red drones are tracking him down]].
* FacelessGoons: The drones doesn't have any feature visible on their faces; lower tier-mooks have black face-plates with two dark eye-lenses which are a stand-in for eyes, while the red EliteMooks only have a chevron-shaped slit where their eyes and nose are supposed to be.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The drones have terrible aim, and can't even hit Tallis or the Girl from less than ten meters away. It really makes the audience wonder how did they manage to win a war against humans and enslave all of mankind given how incompetent they are...
* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler: Subverted, the drone army deactivates after Tallis kills its AI, but a small number of Red Drones, and their leader, the Super Drone, continues marching after Tallis]].
* TheLastTitle
* MachineBlood: Regular drone mooks bleed neon-blue blood, while their red-coloured superiors bleed white.
* MechaMooks: The Drone Police are entirely robotic and artificial, and are powered by a single AI. Although their designs are at least somewhat close to human anatomy, since Tallis managed to kill a few with his dagger via SlashedThroat.
* NoNameGiven: The Girl, played by Katee Sackhoff, is never identified by name. The end credits just lists her as "The Girl".
* RobotWar: The main premise of the film.
* PineappleSurprise:
** While fighting a red drone, Tallis managed to remove the pin from one of the drone's grenade before shoving the drone into water. BOOM.
** Later on, [[spoiler: after digging out his own eyeball to remove the tracking implant]], Tallis uses said implant together with a few grenades, sans pins, to set up an explosive trap for three red drones.
* ScaryBlackMan: There is Tallis' superior, Colonel Norton as played by Keith David. Downplayed with Tallis' BlackBestFriend Anchilles, who kicks quite a bit of ass but is rather affable and not really scary.
* SpoilerCover: That cover above spoils the fact that [[spoiler: Tallis would lose one of his eyes near the end of the film]].
* SuperSoldier: Tallis, and most of his comrades.
* SwordFight: The final showdown between Tallis and the Super Drone. [[spoiler: Tallis wins by scoring a DiagonalCut]].
* TalkingWeapon:
** Tallis' M16 machine gun, named Angel, is a sci-fi example with an AI voice installed in her system, allowing her to chit-chat back and forth with Tallis throughout the film. Yes, the talking machine gun is an actual character.
** Later on in the film, Tallis managed to retrieve Colonel Norton's gattling gun, which turns out to have the same AI system installed, is entirely sentient, and talks with the BadassBaritone voice of Keith David.
* TrainingMontage: Shortly after Tallis and the Girl survived a drone assault together, Tallis has to train her on fighting and shooting. Which is somewhat unnecessary, given how in the earlier shootout scene she seems perfectly capable of kicking ass without his teaching.
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