Honestly Not That Great

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2015)

Well, I didn't know what to expect going into this film, other than that robots might be involved. While I watched it, I was enjoying it, however, as the film's narrative progressed, it the plot became fairly, well, I don't want to say obvious; but better words escape me. In any case, the turns the story takes are fairly boring, and can be spotted from several kilometers away without magnification. The climax did not make me climax.
The characters aren't interesting. They aren't developed well over the film's progression, their behavior that is interesting isn't revealed in the nature of their character, which I suppose could be good, if you wanted to analyze them, but there just isn't really enough there to look at, since the characters aren't developed. I'd guess what's left then is to look at human nature, which is the concept that the film was, in my opinion, trying to address.
But it didn't do it well. It tries to make a statement about the nature of humanity through the actions of the robot. This would be interesting, since the robot is created in the image of man, it might give us something insightful into how we think of ourselves. The downfall of how this is carried out in Ex Machina comes from how the robot is made. It is simply the creation of one character in the film, so really anything said is through that characters bias, and since the characters are poorly developed, their bias is kind of half baked. It's their, but there's no explanation for it. In the end, the film felt like it tried to be insightful, but it just didn't know how to do that.
However, there were robo tits, so you may as well watch it I guess.