'The good deeds a man has done defends him.'

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2016)

'If you've created a conscious machine, it's not the history of man. That's the history of gods.' 'One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa... an upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.' Ava's brain is 'Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.' These are but a few of the thoughts that float through this atmospheric, intelligent, beautifully written EX MACHINA - the jewel in the crown of meaningful films this year written and directed by Alex Garland.
Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) a 26 year old internet programmer and coder at the world's largest internet company BlueBook, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan (Oscar Isaac), 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 named Ava (Alicia Vikander) - 'The Turing Test' - the test to determine if a machine can genuinely pass itself off as human to another human.'
To share more would deprive the viewer form the many discoveries of this very smart film. Each of the actors is in top form and the result is that we actually suspend disbelief about the entire science of Artificial Intelligence and the future of the already present robots. This is not a sci-fi movie – this is a look into the future, and much of it is exciting as well as terrifying. Highly recommended for a very large audience base.