A modern masterpiece of contemporary cinema.

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2016)

Suffused with an atmosphere which makes you feel as if someone is walking close behind you and you can feel the breaths of that entity on the back of your neck, Alex Garland's mature, confident and path- breaking directorial debut is a film that requires several viewings to absorb all there is to take in and once you do that, you won't be able shake a single scene, character or a dialogue off your mind.
It's that provocative, intense and heavy. Garland makes sure that he never loses the subtlety in each involved department which together develops an environment that gets to you like a shadow creeping in the dark, and that's the whole beauty of his unparalleled screenplay. The film is dense and dark masterpiece.
Oscar Isaac gives his career's best here, it's not his presence that intimidates you, it is in his eyes that makes you feel you're in presence of an ominous being. The fear he emits is in his body, oozing out of his skin, and like that he sinks his teeth into the flesh of his narcissistic bastard of a character flawlessly.
Alicia Vikander gives what you can call the very core mass of her potential as an actress. Every step she takes every breath she draws in and wherever she looks with that irreplaceable glass tint in her eyes speaks volumes. The tiniest of an expression that passes across her face is so layered that it practically hides some and gives away some hints of Ava's multifaceted personality. Ava is, believe me, a pivotal character of this decade.
Domhnall Gleeson is fantastic as the same bait being used by both opponents in the film that is a modern masterpiece of contemporary cinema.