Not enough depth

Rating: 6/10 (28 November 2015)

The directing is good, the acting is good. But at the end of the movie, you feel disappointed. It could have gone further. You feel like the writer wasn't smart enough for that. Like there's no way an AI test would be designed that way, no way that a single person could design both the structure and the intelligence itself, it would be a team of people.
The writer had a fantasy about this remote setting, but in the end Nathan feels too much like a drunk bully as opposed to the genius he's supposed to be. The ending feels predictable, I mean there's a middle ground between the "the robot was manipulating everyone" and the potential happy ending. And the thing is, both of those extremes are simplistic. Making a sad ending doesn't make a better movie, it's been done and redone now, it's time to do something more complex. Great sci-fi movies aren't black and white in the end. Just have a look at Blade Runner, Interstellar, or Dark City.
This is not a groundbreaking movie, it just feels good because it's filling an incredible void in sci fi movies. Right now everybody's doing super heroes and comic book characters. For true sci-fi, there's Nolan and the others. So when someone does something a bit different (or at least it feels different in 2015), then yeah people are gonna praise it. But in reality, I'm afraid this movie will be forgotten quite quickly.The directing and acting feels a bit like Gattaca, but it's far from its impact, very far.