Highly recommended Sci-Fi!

Rating: 9/10 (14 August 2015)

Alex Garland may or may not be considered a genius, but he has written and directed one masterful movie. But this may just be in the eye of the beholder. Caleb Smith(Domhall Gleeson) is a highly intelligent programmer at an international-search giant. His boss, the CEO, Nathan Bateman(Oscar Isaac)happens to be a brilliant minded recluse and fakes a contest for Caleb to win. The prize being a week at Nathan's private mountain estate far from anywhere. Caleb has been specifically chosen to be the human component of a testing of Nathan's latest experiment...Ava(Alicia Vikander), a breath-taking A.I. with unchallenged conscious and emotional capabilities. Ava proves to be sophisticated, very seductive and dangerously deceptive.
Special effects are extraordinary, surprisingly fresh and mind boggling. Scenery more than charming. Fantastic finale, but could have been more thought out. Do I personally want a sequel? Hell, yes!! Also appearing: Sonoya Mizuno, Claire Selby, Symara A. Templeman and Corey Johnson.