A Better Ending Please

Rating: 7/10 (16 July 2015)

This movie had me enthralled up until the final act. This is probably one of the movies strengths, but also a huge weakness since it raises expectations for a unique ending. I'm not saying the ending was bad, it just didn't meet expectations. I pretty much assumed the housekeeper/maid was an android, so no surprise there. I had some suspicion that Nathan was an android and might actually be the one being manipulated by Ava. A better ending might have been that Ava, a true AI was manipulating Nathan, hence the hard drinking, into bringing Caleb to her for some perceived purpose or that there was some prior connection between the two. This is the dilemma with a suspenseful movie; how does one make the ending a surprise.