Guy Hangs Out With His Sketchy Boss to Test His New AI

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2016)

Ex Machina a new film in a drying sci-fi film industry. Causing some waves the praise is certainly worth it considering many of the sci-fi movies coming out recently have been very driven by space travel and nothing else. It is refreshing to have a movie based on robots. Knowing you know the plot of this film Lets just get into my thoughts about it. Starting with what I liked. This movie has a great sense of suspense throughout the entire movie. You are constantly wondering who is telling the truth Nathan or Eva. The movie really wants you to believe Eva especially because of how the movie climaxes. As well as the suspense the movie has me great dialog and even some humor despite the overall dry characters. Now getting into my issues. The main one being the pacing is a bit all over the place. One minute its super intense you are ready to see what happens next but wait then there is a dance scene. Which is hilarious but really takes away from the suspense. The entire film is like this ups and downs all over the place. The next major thing is I was never invested in the characters They needed more back round and it just wasn't provided. It left me not caring what happened to certain characters at the climax. Anyway the film is intense and worth a watch or two especially in an increasingly unoriginal sci-fi market.