A streetwise cop specialises in tracking down robots that have gone haywire and are endangering the public. But he finds someone is deliberately reprogramming the machines to attack people. Sci-fi thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Kirstie Alley and Kiss frontman Gene Simmons.

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.