Deep and thought provoking

Rating: 10/10 (30 August 2015)

Ex Machina is one of the "smaller" films to have come out in 2015. It had a smaller budget, it came from a first time director and it wasn't huge in the box office. Although small in all of those aspects, this movie is amazing.
Movies like this do not come along very often. It may have been made on a relatively small budget, especially for a science-fiction movie, but I can assure you that the film-makers milked every single penny they had into this film. The effects are absolutely breathtaking, with Ava, the artificial intelligent robot looking very believable, very real. The location for the film was chosen perfectly and pretty much every shot looks beautiful. I think the director did a really amazing job with color and the contrast. Some people may argue the movie moves too slow, but I strongly disagree. As a viewer you just feel trapped in this constant cat and mouse game throughout the movie and I have to say I was on the edge of my seat pretty much from start to finish. Great performances in the movie, with a very small cast. Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander absolutely nail their respective roles, which intrigued me very much.
There is one thing I regret about Ex Machina and that is that I didn't watch it in theaters, because this movie is so thought provoking, expertly paced and brilliantly shot. I was blown away by Ex Machina and quite honestly, it's my second favorite movie of 2015 so far, only topped by Mad Max.