A Refreshing Return to Sci-Fi

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2015)

Alex Garland has done an impressive thing. He's managed to produce a better Sci-fi film than Sci-Fi giant Ridley Scott's latest attempt, and he's managed to make it popular too! Ex Machina looks at artificial intelligence without re-working the trite old moral issue of 'can we switch off a machine that is self aware?' that every movie on a similar theme has since plagiarised from Spileberg's A.I. over a decade ago.
And what's more, the interesting script and rich mise-en-scène are strongly balanced with brilliant CGI that actually supports the film rather than competes with it (finally!).
The film has an original style, an engaging script and a directorial ability worthy of Kubrick himself. In fact it's so good I didn't mind over-looking some of the more florid, but infrequent, philosophical and scientific inaccuracies of the dialogue.
A well needed dose of quality into the Sci-fi genre.