Good not great

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2015)

I felt Domhnall's portrayal was heavy handed or overdone through most of the film and it turned me off. It was almost Big Bangish: a nerdy man-child stepping out into the big adult world for the first time. I thought he was going to dig a tunnel to "escape" the helicopter rotors he bent over so far. His initial interactions with the mad scientist were overly awkward as if it were up to him to create the social/professional difference between them. It was so overboard that I couldn't imagine that he could overcome the length of the arc he created in 4 hours, much less two. As he struggled with the AI test, the relationships and, alas, himself, Caleb had many obvious opportunities to figure things out, but failed to ask a significant question of others or himself. I think this is the writers fault in trying to stretch the movie to its contracted length. This is why I was surprised at the end when he finally took appropriate action as there was no evidence that he was capable of thinking that way.