Monday 26 January 2015

Film Review: EX-Machina

Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi

Cert: 15 cert

Director: Alex Garland

Screen writer: Alex Garland

StarringAlicia Vikander , Domhnall Gleeson , Oscar Isaac , Chelsea Li , Sonoya Mizuno , Evie Wray , Corey Johnson , Deborah Rosan , Symara A. Templeman , Ramzan Miah , Elina Alminas , Claire Selby , Johanna Thea.

Running time: 108 min

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Implied sex off-screen.
A woman dances seductively and begins to undress for a man.
There is a detailed discussion regarding having sex with a robot.
Full-frontal nudity is seen on several female, humanoid robots.
A woman lies on a bed naked. Her breasts and pubic hair are visible, but nothing sexual is implied.
A female, humanoid robot examines her naked body in a mirror. Breasts, buttocks, and pubic region are visible.

Violence & Gore: A man cuts his arm and it bleeds extensively.
A man is stabbed.
Robots are brutally disassembled.

Profanity:  The f-word is said approximately 20 times, in both a sexual and non-sexual context. 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Characters are seen drinking alcohol.
A character gets extremely drunk several times.
There are conversations about drinking and hangovers.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: A man is stabbed.
A man cuts his arm.
A female robot peels back her skin to reveal machine parts.
Robots are beaten and have limbs damaged.  



Story: Caleb, a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Likes : First of all i wasn't overly impressed in this film, but the concept of this sci-fi drama was well presented & the story-line was very very clear, can i say it was predictable yes in places just from what was happening Alicia Vikander was just brilliant as the A.I machine, which has a slight but cold personality as though the film you start to see patterns emerge in her question, dose reveal why build a A.I you have to be aware if it an A.I talking or just a machine which is very clever i this film.
Oscar Isaac performance in this film was good portraying a sociopathic investor with a slight dark side but not in psychotic way just in a obsessive way which really come across on screen.
 Domhnall Gleeson performance as well brilliantly done, playing a young man that a bit lonely, who get invited to speak with Nathan (Isaac) who built the AI, things start off seemly normal as these too speak but then you start to notice that things start to take on a very dark manner wit a twisted concept.
The special effect of the A.I is truly awesome showing realism in a robotic world, if i was to compare this to the other film the machine sadly the machine would be better concept not that this was a bad film it had its flaws. The mechanic of A.I concept is brilliant told i the story so it had that going for but so thing were missing for me to say this to say this film was a top 10 out of 10 film.

Dislikes : The story, concept & special effect & acting were good, but sadly the one thing that lets this film down is its pace, its was at a snails pace which puts the audience to sleep special when you haven't got much going on, you start to loss interest in it, this was the one thing really that lets this film, i think if it have a bit more going on & with a bit more pace i would say ya it a 10 out of 10 film but sadly i cant give that because of the pace alone concept was good pace was poor.

Overall : great concept, brilliant acting, brilliant special effect just let down by pace.

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.4 out of 10 for concept's pace




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