Ex Machina (2014)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac
Synopsis:
The employee of an I.T. firm is selected to spend a week with the head of the company to test an A. I. unit. There develops an uneasy triangular relationship of mistrust as he is manipulated by both master and slave.
Review:
A gripping Sci-Fi thriller in the old mould (cf. The Forbin Project), delivered with magisterial special effects fully at the service of the story. It repackages the time-honoured male creator fantasy just as it sounds the A.I. alarum bell: a fully autonomous, self-cognizant intelligence could surely contravene that essential programming diktat: harm not thy creator. A sleekly designed, claustrophobic suspenser, with a satisfying sting in the tail.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac
Synopsis:
The employee of an I.T. firm is selected to spend a week with the head of the company to test an A. I. unit. There develops an uneasy triangular relationship of mistrust as he is manipulated by both master and slave.
Review:
A gripping Sci-Fi thriller in the old mould (cf. The Forbin Project), delivered with magisterial special effects fully at the service of the story. It repackages the time-honoured male creator fantasy just as it sounds the A.I. alarum bell: a fully autonomous, self-cognizant intelligence could surely contravene that essential programming diktat: harm not thy creator. A sleekly designed, claustrophobic suspenser, with a satisfying sting in the tail.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac
Synopsis:
The employee of an I.T. firm is selected to spend a week with the head of the company to test an A. I. unit. There develops an uneasy triangular relationship of mistrust as he is manipulated by both master and slave.
Review:
A gripping Sci-Fi thriller in the old mould (cf. The Forbin Project), delivered with magisterial special effects fully at the service of the story. It repackages the time-honoured male creator fantasy just as it sounds the A.I. alarum bell: a fully autonomous, self-cognizant intelligence could surely contravene that essential programming diktat: harm not thy creator. A sleekly designed, claustrophobic suspenser, with a satisfying sting in the tail.