Google me Pink

Rating: 7/10 (16 March 2016)

Unless you don't care about hearing important plot points before seeing this movie, do not read this review until you see the film.
Alternate titles for this movie could have been "Google me Pink" or "My Ex-Machina".
At first viewing, I thought this movie was not bad. I wasn't really blown away by it. Certainly, I appreciated it more than the similar film, "Her". It's obvious that a lot of thought and effort went into Ex Machina. It wasn't until after a night of sleep that this one started to seep into my unconscious mind. I actually like this movie even more now than I did while initially watching it. The tone of the film is engaging, the cinematography is nicely done, and the CGI/composites are very good. Even the kinetic movements of the androids were carefully considered. Acting was good too, although the characters were a bit quirky. The story's treatment was along the lines of the more thoughtful 50s science fiction (reminiscent of the original Twilight Zone series).
Quite a bit of dialog was dedicated to the topic of whether or not Ava could convince someone that she was sentient. IMHO, it was at the point that Ava easily convinced the helicopter pilot that she was human that she passed that test. And her abandoning Caleb was when she truly transcended from robot to pretty girl -- complete with archetypal ambition. Just as Nathan had mentioned, the A.I.s would have the humans figured out before long. Watch out world.
Related works: Having a long-time interest in this sort of topic, I can recommend a few similar films, including Gene Roddenberry's "The Questor Tapes" from 1974 and the more recent "Automata" from 2014. Of course, for more of a campy take on this type of thing, there's always the enjoyable Fem-bot episodes of the "Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" as well as the 1976 film "Future World".