Watchable

Rating: 6/10 (19 May 2015)

Artificial intelligence. Can it mimic human behavior and communication? Can it discover new theorems in math and science? Can it teach us something about consciousness and the nature of reality? Can we put it in sexy/creepy humanoid body and have sex with it? Despite the movie nominally being about artificial intelligence, its obvious through the way it is advertised that the movie would actually be more lowest-common-denominator. Ultimately the movie is less about science and technology, and more about taking the viewer on spooky tour of a haunted mansion inhabited by its douchey, bearded macho programmer owner and his submissive robot slave girls.
On the surface the movie does delve a bit into the philosophical, but bubbling beneath the thin surface it's all about the themes of power and sex. Control, illusion and manipulation. There is even the plot-point of how literally the power in the mansion keeps going out mysteriously. The plot unfolds like a generic horror-supernatural movie. The viewer, through the main character, is dropped in the middle of woods and left to question what is real and what is illusion. A fun trip turns into horror and about looking for a means of escape.
The movie is engaging enough the first time you are in the process of watching it, but at the end when it's over it is forgotten.
Around the middle-end of the movie it really starts to run out of steam. The long-drawn-out scenes of nudity and gratuitously creepy images is a little bit too much and seem like boring cheap filler.