Needs defragging

Rating: 4/10 (1 February 2014)

Like a computer with 8Mb of memory and a 33Mhz processor this moves so slowly and deliberately that it is predictable.
It starts very promisingly but gradually descends, or stutters, into Gen-Y speak; dialog and scenes of relationship clichés that have been played over and over, with each character mouthing (and that includes the OS voices too) the same platitudes.
The movie has the emotional depth of a late teen piece; something that a young adult might have scratched out from their experiences of school and the misadventures of a young relationship. Too often it settles for mawkish mewling and also proves the axiom that watching other people falling in love is dull, even with software code, especially when they say such uninteresting things to each other.
It does have a good idea but the execution is disappointing and repetitive.
The metaphor of an operating system having the qualities of a woman is curious. The technical inaccuracy is too easy to take apart for its own sake. No doubt if Microsoft had developed this everyone would have wanted the old Win 7 version, with the more familiar buttons and who could blame them, because an OS is meant to be predictable, not emotional and not offering simulated sex. What part of the end user license agreement is that?
If someone comes along and picks up the themes in this and develops it into a stronger piece, they may have a convincing and engaging film.