That sounds like a real downer of a film. Frances MacDormand is a gifted actress, and apparently, according to a friend, you get to see her go to the toilet in a bucket. If that's your thing, maybe it will redeem itself.
Archive was one of those films that you stumble on late at night, mistakenly thinking it's a tv series, only 59 minutes into it, realizing that it's a movie. My internet went down half way through, when it came back the next day, I found myself fast forwarding through parts of it because the plot development was glacial.
The main character, a robotics scientist was a real piece of work. He was a right sexist pig dog who kept telling the robots that they needed to calm down and stuff like that. He had a crew of variants -- different models that would help him revive his dead wife. They referred to one another as sisters. This should have been set in Utah instead of Japan. The first ones were about as accomplished as the Robot on Pee Wee's Playhouse. Then, inexplicably, he comes up with another one that looks like it came out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. That made zero sense. The first two were jealous and hurt at the attention he paid to the one that was more human looking.
I kept hoping the robots would gang up on him and put us out of his misery, but I was not rewarded. The surprise ending was stupid and not particularly satisfying.
