this movie sucks.

Rating: 3/10 (14 April 2020)

I watched this movie just the other night and I'm still thinking about how this movie somehow won an oscar. If you want to watch a movie about two pretentious idiots in a minimalistic set, who truly have no motivations, along with two other robots, and unnecessary nudity. Nudity does not offend me whatsoever but this was gratuitous in nature, and it was COMPLETELY unnecessary. I truly tried to look at this movie in a critical sense and I am not usually compelled to write a review for a movie but I simply cannot let this go, I honestly feel cheated by this film.
To elaborate, let me explain. Spoilers Ahead.
Right off the bat the motivations in this film are completely flawed. A man wins a competition in his company to spend a week with the ceo of the company. There is no context given as to what this trip is for, and there's next to no exposition, so you're thrown into this world with no rules, and no boundaries. The main character arrives at the ceo's home which is some extreme bunker that is so minimalist and boring to look at. I understand minimalism is a style but the set design is just extremely lazy and it seems like in the home is just used to drive the plot forward, not to make the production more interesting. After some boring dialogue, presumably there to make you feel "eerie", you find out that the main character is at the ceos home, whom I recall being named Nathan, to turing test a new artificial intelligence named Ava. Nathan is one of the worst characters I have ever seen, just ever. He has no character, no interesting character development. Nothing. This character was clearly written in twenty minutes. He has no motivations, he is simply there to be an evil character. Anyways, Ava. I have so many issues with this movie because it could have been executed correctly and been INCREDIBLY interesting. Many other movies such as 2001, have tackled the subject of artificial intelligence in a way that truly made you think. This movie made me think, but not about how artificial intelligence will change the world, but about how this movie was actually made, and how it won an oscar. Ava is an incredibly boring character who could have been explored. Her intelligence could have been fleshed out and shown as a deeply troubled character, but instead she is a one sided character who's motivations are never explained, because they make no sense. To spare the boring details, Ava and Caleb ( the main guy ) come up with a plan to have Ava cause a power outage at 10, this is a whole boring subplot with no meaning, and Caleb will break Ava out of the home and they will run away. Well, Caleb finds out that Nathan programmer Ava to flirt with Caleb, and she is not truly in love with him. Caleb has already changed security protocols freeing Ava. Nathan knocks out Caleb, and then tries to take on Ava and another robot, Kiyoko. Why he did this? I have no idea. Why did he think he could take on two machines???? Anyways. Ava lunges at Nathan knocking him over. Eventually Nathan gains control and knocks her arm off, while Kiyoko stabs Nathan in the back with a sushi knife. Nathan knocks Kiyokos face off, killing her, and Nathan dies, leaving Ava. Ava is now made into a heartless character who we were lead to believe had a consciousness and empathy for other humans. Nope! Throw that all out the window! I understand that this was the original plan, she never really cared for Caleb, but if she was supposed to be a conscious person with emotions, how could she pick Caleb in some random room and leave him to die without guilt? But to top it all off, Ava leaves on a helicopter leaving Caleb to die. How does she expect to charge her battery when the only charging station was at Nathan's home? Will the pilot of the helicopter not rat her out? How does she expect to get a job as a robot? To many questions. This movie sucks. Don't watch it.