Good for an afternoon... if u bored

Rating: 7/10 (31 May 2015)

As far as Sci-fi movies go, this isn't anything awful at all. As the boss man in the feature says about his employee about programming... "you're okay, pretty good, even" this film is summed up in that quote!
Stylistically, the film is great, the mood is spot on, the acting is also in tone with the movie. The shocks in the first portion of the movie are shocking, the claustrophobia is intentionally effective.
The interactions between main 'hero boy' and 'victim girl' are great. The scenes with supposedly 'great man/ alcoholic' less so. I couldn't believe that our main protagonist, a supposed 'loner' wouldn't from the 'get-go' see through his lies, his lack of charisma... why on Earth would he sign that contract? The awkwardness was present from the start...
Points of factual weakness that left me feeling less emotive, even if the film was 'highly emotive'...
1. The security system is inadequate, supposing this mega-rich, mega-clever, multi-billionaire project... you can steal someone's tag? Sure, it may have been a ploy but still... in that case access to the facility itself would've been compromised.
2. The ending? So a machine that 'feels' shows no gratitude? Yet has all the thought of humanity as its driving factor? Is it going to go ahead and do nothing but "people-watch"? What was it's/ her purpose in the end? To go and watch people? Sure, she might be the 'terminator' potential, but the movie just left her heading in no direction.
So what, from this are we supposed to assume that she neither feels or has any direction, but is happy to make a point by leaving 'mr no- hope' to die in a cage like she wasn't ( she had support) . She left him with none! What a bitch!
3. Is this film really about the objectification of women? I really suspect so, it makes lot more sense when viewed in this way, than instead taking it as a serious film about AI...
Either way, worth at least one viewing! No Blade Runner... what is though?