Good movie, just a pity about the ending

Rating: 7/10 (12 September 2015)

Good movie, just a pity about the ending.
A junior coder working at the company that runs the world's most popular search engine (no, it's not Google) wins a company lottery. The prize is a week at the CEO's estate / research facility. When he gets there he discovers that the boss has been working on androids with superior Artificial Intelligence. The coders job is to test how "human" the android is. What develops is a manipulative game between the android and the coder.
Clever, almost plausible movie. Clearly a lot of thinking went into the plot and the dialogue. Far better than a similar-themed movie like Artificial Intelligence which tackled the "can robots feel" subject in an overly sentimental and ultimately empty and inconsequential manner.
Incredibly intriguing, and was set up for a very profound ending.
(Spoilers ahead). And that's where it went from a brilliant movie to just a good one. The ending is quite weak. There are no great profundities - it is really just a thriller-ending, and one inconsistent with what went before.
Moreover, the writer/director paints the android as the hero and the humans as the villains, which is quite a preposterous suggestion, and not consistent with the plot. I had no empathy toward the android at all - it's a machine ffs! - so the ending felt incredibly flat, and a touch annoying. The scenes leading up to it also seemed a bit implausible.
Good work by Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander in the main roles. After his great performances in Inside Llewyn Davis, Show Me a Hero and this, it can't be long before Oscar Isaac wins an acting Oscar.