Underwhelming and Borrowed

Rating: 3/10 (13 June 2015)

Dr. Noonien Soong would turn in his grave for this outmoded and uninspired A.I. drama. While the premise depends too much on the irrational fear of robots taking over the world, it just feeds into the paranoia of giant tech corporations unleashing a monster that can't be contained. Pretty generic stuff right? Yes.
There is an overload of symbolism and techno babble that makes me want to cry out loud... "We get it man!" It is understood that we've got to be skeptical about new technology but this 'Greek Gods banished their own creators' theme tied into technophobia is overdone now and so is Frankenstein's monster and so is the Luddite fallacy.
The geeky beta test plot also wears off after some time. One starts to wonder that why wouldn't the creator just unveil the invention to public by now like Google Glass or Self Driving Cars. After all we've accepted them without much hoopla! This film fails to establish whether man should feel proud or worried about creating an artificial life form, all the while assuming that it would hold us in contempt and ultimately bring our demise. It is stupid to try to control rather than embrace and guide your own creation. That kind of jerky approach to an invention is obviously unscientific. It is a movie so it's exaggerated but hey why do techies have to be so creepy? It seems like another bitch movie where the girl manipulates all the guys (good and bad) to get her way without feeling anything. Verdict - Cold as your ex-girlfriend.