Bean's Review: Interesting story-not what I was expecting. To
me, the three main characters were unknown. However, their acting was
quite well done. And, their acting was better than in most recent
movies with “well-known” actors.
The story kept my attention in that, were each
of the three main characters, “good” or “bad” – the characterization of
each keeps you guessing, especially with Nathan, who ends up being a
“psycho”. Ironically, or may be not so ironic,
Ava, the AI got the “last laugh”, as she escapes and joins society as a
human, Nathan is killed by Ava and Kyoko, another AI, and Caleb is left
locked in the maze of the “house”.
The movie was reminiscent of The Stepford
Wives. While watching this movie, Blade Runner and I, Robot did not
even enter my mind-just The Stepford Wives. Perhaps because Ava was
female based and in I, Robot, the main robot or AI is
male based and Ava looks more human. In Blade Runner, the genetically
engineered humans, just seemed more human than Ava-until she put on her
“new skin”.
Best scene: the dance scene with Nathan and Kyoko-it was really out of place, creepy and bizarre
Bean’s rating: matinee – I would not watch again-but it is worth seeing once
From a special effect point of view the effects they did for Ava were just as good as the ones they had for Sonny in I, Robot, which is impressive because this movie had nobody I knew in it and wasn't made with a big budget studio behind it.
From the AI aspect of the movie it was very creepy and also interesting at the same time. I think the craziest part is the potential.that is implied with just how close we are to actually creating AI in the here and now. And who knows we could already have and no one knows.
From the back ground story side of the movie I did not care for the inventor guy and was happy to see him get it in the end. The tester guy did well but he should have gotten out of the house at the end.
Overall this movie keeps you guessing and entertained.
Best Scene: I liked the house.
Mike's Rating: Worth the price of the ticket
Mike's Rating: Worth the price of the ticket
A,C.'s Review: The
subject of Artificial Intelligence has been a sci/fi staple for decades
from HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey to the robotic boy played by Hayley
Joe Osment in A.I. EX MACHINA is the latest offering to take a look at what would be the results of a computer obtaining sentience.
The
whole movie takes place at the secluded estate of an internet
billionaire who has created a search engine company that has become
bigger than Google. Now the
eccentric genius has created AVA an android woman and is in the process
of using one of his employees named Caleb to test her to see if she
truly is the breakthrough he has been looking for after what’s reveled
to be many failed attempts.
The
inventor Nathan played by Oscar Isaac soon to be a household name when
he appears as one of the protagonists in this year’s STAR WARS: THE
FORCE AWAKENS, has
determined he needs one more generation of the program to achieve true
A.I. and plans to erase AVA’s program thus “killing her”. As what
usually happens in these type of movies Caleb the programmer has fallen
in love with AVA and is determined to rescue her.
There
is a fourth character Koyoko who initially appears to be a Chinese
servant of Nathan but is actually one of the failed previous generations
of the AVA program.
She speaks not one line of dialogue the entire movie but she was my
favorite character out of the four leads. Trying to figure out what she
was “thinking” was interesting for me, plus the actress the plays her
was drop dead gorgeous.
In
the end it all falls apart of course and twists and tragedy takes
place. Ava turns out not to be what she seemed to be and what she did to
Caleb is frankly unforgivable
and that sort of made me disappointed in the end.
Best Scene: I have to agree with Bean the dance sequence was something to see.
A.C.'s Rating: Matinee
Mike’s Rating: Matinee, worth seeing on the big screen, just not at full price.
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