A wonderful film

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2015)

A wonderful film, just as I like them, always looking good, great dialogue and completely engrossing. This looks wonderful at the start, the colour, the reflections, all helping to create a sense of mystery and drawing the viewer in. As often is the case I felt the rich, exciting visuals would lapse after the opening but not a bit of it and so engaging is the dialogue that although this is, at least at first, only two people talking to each other it was so exciting. The exchanges between the young geek and his temporary new boss who has created a most advanced robot and then the exchanges between the geek and the robot are simply wonderful to behold. Geeson is fine as the young geek but Oscar Isaac is a revelation as the beer swilling genius with the common touch and as for Alicia Vikander, well watch out Scarlett Johansson. In many ways the perfect film, just once or twice looking back do I feel something might have been done differently (like the closing sequence) but there were probably budgetary restraints and nothing was going to prevent this exciting film from succeeding as well as it does.