Manipulative A.I.

Rating: 7/10 (20 December 2015)

Earlier this year I watched a movie called "The Machine". It's about an attractive android with A.I. and even though she was referred to as Machine, her looks were modeled after her creator, Ava.
Ex Machina is about an attractive android named Ava (if this isn't weird enough, years ago there was a movie with Gregory Hines about an android named Eve... there's something about robots and three letter names). There were other similarities (between The Machine and Ex Machina) such as them both being super secretive and in the testing phases. In Ex Machina a character named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) was the tester/testee of Ava. He was flown to the ultra-isolated compound of the founder of the uber-successful company, Bluebook. There he interacted with Ava regularly to give his grading on her passability as human.
The movie was eerie and dark and definitely had a psy-thrill aspect to it. The creator of Bluebook, Nathan (Oscar Isaac), was douchey enough that you didn't like him or trust him. And if you don't like or trust him, how could you like or trust anything he created? So went the movie and of course you'll have to watch it to know who was trustworthy and who wasn't.