More weird as it goes on... and not in a good way.

Rating: 3/10 (29 August 2015)

OK the idea of having a reclusive guy date an OS (Operating System) seems genius at first glance (hence why post trailer watching I saw the film), but this film goes from OK to blah, to sad, to disturbing, to me waiting for the thing to finish.
So we start off with the protagonist Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) working at this place where, well, he writes letters for those who can't or wont??? I place the question marks as if that is a job, I want it. But I pause here to say, his job, was the highlight of the film, which should say a lot right there.
OK so we find out that Theodore is getting a divorce (though we have to wait forever to actually know this and spend a lot of time thinking he's just a reclusive looser- really guys, a simple 2 minute explanation would have saved him from that tag right then and there. After all a guy going through divorce acting the way he did makes sense). And because he's so lonely, when he comes across an advertisement for a new state of the art AI Operating System, that does everything for you Theo's all 'why not?'
So he gets the program and installs it and yadda yadda (asks for a female voice, goes through a questionnaire including how he doesn't get on so well with his mum? Um???) and he's OS is complete calling herself Samantha.
The pair (as is easier to say) get to know each other and this leads to them getting closer and going out and eventually being an item. (One night they have sex, honestly that was weird).
So up until this point it's pretty much what you'd expect. But then it just plummets as Samantha starts arguing with him, going behind his back to talk to some professor AI thing and then eventually cheating on him with literally thousands of others.
It is so whack, really!
The only saving grace is Theo's friend Amy (who very surprisingly is Amy Adams aka Ms 'How do I know he loves me?' Enchanted- Side Bar: Really starting to like Amy Adams a whole lot). Amy post husband, (because when she's with him shes your typical mentally abused wife) is a stabilizing friend for Theo through everything and even she ends up dating her OS.
Sadly, the OS's end up 'leaving' (though how and why is quite, quite vague) and Amy and Theo take solace in each other. I tip my hat to the writers for not having them doing anything stupid like kiss or whatever, because that would have completely spoiled their moment of 'griveing' for their OS's.
All in all I was sorry I watched this. I admit my intrigue was to watch a guy date an AI/OS and thought I would enjoy it, but nay, I really didn't.
3/10 purely for 1) The idea- To have someone fall in love with an OS. 2) Amy Adams Character and 3) The little kid in Theo's game that has to help him find his way back to the ship or whatever it was.
Her? No... Just...No.