A good idea wasted

Rating: 4/10 (22 February 2014)

I went to the movie theatre this week with a good expectation about this movie. What I found, though, was a terribly boring and awkward movie. It did not make me weep, laugh, think or feel excited - at all.
The idea behind Her is good and had potential to turn into a very good picture. People live in an era where they talk to their computers/smartphones more often than they do to other human beings, culminating to a point where one's best friend or partner is, many times, an operating system.
Theodore is a very sensible guy who has recently divorced from his beloved wife Catherine, but does not want to sign the divorce papers. After a few frustrated new romances - including sex voice chats - Theodore finds a pleasing company and a new love on his newly purchased operating system, Samantha. Theodore soon gets impressed with Samantha's intelligence and loves the way she understands him. Besides the fact that Theodore was dating his OS - including taking Her to hang out in public places and going out with friends of him - the dialogues between them are predictable, clichéd and in many occasions very embarrassing. In many scenes it felt like the whole audience wanted to run out of the theatre - me included.
By the end of the movie I was expecting something interesting or surprising to happen, but it simply didn't.
The credits at the end were very welcomed with this one.