Intelligent and entertaining

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2016)

I think this was the best film I saw in 2015. It's well written, acted and directed, most of all it's good entertainment.
It's an examination of gender, hubris, ownership and what it is to be human. This is all achieved in a suspenseful thriller with a good salting of sexual tension.
The acting is uniformly excellent, Alicia Vikander is exquisite, the perfect human I would construct if I was god of my own world. Oscar Isaac is equally compelling as the arrogant heartless creator, while Domnhal Gleeson plays the innocent who is ensnared and duped by all the other characters.
Alex Garland has a strong track record writing screen plays, here he not only writes but also directs, and with the skill of a highly regarded veteran.
I look forward to his next film, in the meantime Ex Machina is worth a repeat viewing.