“Black Road” (*1/2 out of four) was a dreary, derivative futuristic melodrama set in 2029 about a drifter (Sam Daly) who risks his life to save a woman (Leilani Sarelle) from her violent ex-husband and is aided by an artificial-intelligence implant who guides him (and annoys the audience) every step of the way. Just another pile of ideas borrowed from other (and better) movies. Daly looks a little like Sam Worthington but sorely lacks sparks or charisma. Film fanatics may remember Sarelle as Sharon Stone’s lover from “Basic Instinct” which had more thrills and charge in any one scene than this fizzle has in nearly two hours.

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