glossy horror masquerading as philosophy

Rating: 4/10 (5 June 2017)

*minor spoilers*
This isn't what it appears - or promises - to be. Intentionally? I'm not sure.
I'm a sci-fi girl. I don't mind a little horror mixed in, but I'm looking for things that challenge and ask questions. The kind of questions that raise more questions, not answers.
This isn't that kind of film, yet most of the reviews suggest it is. If humanity is under the microscope, and its clearly not a very high quality one, then its the humans that offer insight, not the AI. The so called intelligence is unexplained,undefined and totally derivative. Meanwhile the human who created them is, with the power of life and death at his fingertips, rendered a monster. He answers to no one, and nothing, is unstoppable, alone in his mountain majesty, a god who like so many in the realm of fiction is smarter that the machines he builds or in fact anyone except another God.
The limitless abundance of his abilities - or resources - reduces any chance the AI might have possessed to truly answer any notion of what it means to be human. Even Data doesn't possess everything that this AI does.
Of course it's a time honoured thing looking at us and our perception of life as a way of measuring it - but I'd look to Bladerunner as the way to do that well.
It also suffers from wanting to look and sound good, and it does, but at the expense of great story, believable scenarios and intriguing twists. Too many long silences, quotable memes instead of dialogue and high school level symbolism. In the end it felt cheap but pretty. And the music was a bit annoying.