Ex Machina

Rating: 8/10 (25 June 2015)

Ex Machina is about Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) Caleb has won a competition. Now he can go to somewhere where he can work with a drank addict, who is also a genius. This drank addict is played by Oscar Isaac. Nathan (the drank addict) has developed an AI. Caleb has to work and test this AI. After a while Caleb falls in love with Ava (this is how they called the AI) due this there follow lots of sexual dialogue. At first I was OK with this part but after a while you are like, OK we get it she can have sexual feelings to. And they stop with it, luckily.
The movie is directed by Alex Garland. He also wrote the script for this movie. He did the best he can. By the way, this is the first movie he has ever directed. I liked the directing, there were some scenes that were good, and others that were just beautiful.
Some more about the acting, writing and plot. The acting was good. I really liked Oscar Isaac. With his short temper and angry behavior, it was very good acted. He is like this dark character, because Ava tells Caleb at a certain point that he can not trust Nathan, after this point Oscars character gets more mysterious. Gleeson was OK, didn't like his acting that much and I really liked Alicia Vikander. She played Ava. She did very well acting like a sort of robot, but still with some human things in her. Her lines are also very well written. the writing was over all also pretty good.
The plot was also good and in the middle of the movie, they took a huge twist, what scared me really good, from this point the movie kept on going darker. I am not going to go in depth about this part, because I want to keep this review spoiler free. They tried to put some funny parts in it (like the dancing scene) but it didn't really work for me, and that is something I didn't like. But there is this part that I really liked, and that is the part where Caleb and Nathan are sitting under a wooden shelter in the woods. It has some good dialogue and that is the part I liked. Near the end of the movie there are a couple of twist and that is also something fun.
Onerall I think the movie is pretty good and here are some individual scores like I do with every of my reviews since my birdman review:
Directing: 8.5/10
Acting: 8/10
Writing: 8/10
Plot: 9/10
That is a total of 33.5/40, which is rounded 8/10