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It's set on an Earthlike planet that later turns out to actually be Earth. The main thing I can remember is the main character encounters some sort of 4-legged walking drone that we assume is alien but it turns its head and reveals a Union Jack on it and is clearly a military drone.

The story has a big reveal in it where we go into some military base and learn the planet has pretty much self-destructed because a space ship appeared in the sky one day... which turns out to be us... and then it turns out this is Earth and we caused our own destruction.

I think it was one of those movies that went straight to Netflix or Amazon and has about four cast members in it at most.

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This is Robot World (2015)

A pilot is marooned on an alien planet and soon discovers the planet is inhabited by predatory machines.

The nightmarish dystopian hellscape turns out to be

A fairly accurate representation of modern-day Birmingham

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    Birmingham is also the inspiration for Mordor, so it fits.
    – Separatrix
    Commented Jan 6, 2022 at 12:48
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    @Separatrix - It always surprised me that Tolkien made Mordor look so warm and inviting by comparison.
    – Valorum
    Commented Jan 6, 2022 at 17:28

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