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4 July 2025
It's always better to keep a little mystery around...
Auton 3 is the only film of the trilogy not directed by the big daddy that is Nicholas Briggs, however, he did stay on albeit under a pseudonym as the main writer with some help from Bernice Summerfield writer, Paul Ebbs. Auton 3 caps the trilogy off on a rather downbeat note but feels like the natural conclusion of the story, as good as it was, I think I've got to give it to Auton 2 for being the best of the trilogy.
The Millhampton Event has left an entire population at the mercy of the Nestene Consciousness. UNIT's only hope of halting an AUTON invasion is to find Lockwood. However, UNIT's most enigmatic and talented operative is missing. Within his mind are the means by which the Consciousness will return to life and destroy the human race. Lockwood will not be given up easily. Palmer knows that time is running out. As the world's computer networks break down, he leads a desperate mission into the heart of AUTON control. Sal and Ramsay can only hope they will survive to find Lockwood before the Nestene Consciousness takes over his mind completely and extinguishes all life on Earth...
Like its predecessor, Auton 3 further scales up the action and acts as a direct sequel to the second. Like I said earlier Nicholas Briggs is no longer directing with Bill Baggs taking the director's chair this time around and he puts in an impressive effort with great talent to his framing and composition. Alastair Lock's music is also rather fantastic but did leave some desire in areas due to the absence of an underscore, needless to say, it was still rather good. But the special effects by Benjamin Smith are really really good which took me by complete surprise, but you can see when Cyberon came out that they had exhausted the budget for this one that it had a knock-on effect to that film.
My main complaint is probably how sidelined Michael Wade's Lockwood was for the film, spending near enough the entire film bedridden and out of the action, however, this didn't detract too much as it gave us a nice introspective on his character and allowed him to showcase his signature dry wit that I've come to appreciate from his character. Bryonie Pritchard is back as Dr Sal which was a nice return to form but aside from those two, no one else really grabbed me as much as the second film.
Overall a great finale to the trilogy but I think the second is gonna have to be my personal favourite.
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