Pityful

Rating: 1/10 (9 March 2014)

"HER" - WHAT A PILE OF PLONK! Another film that everyone ranted and raved about. I have to admit the trailer really was a good teaser and has sort of a unique idea That is where it stops! This is a laughably stupid piece of attempted Hollywood art-house rubbish. A romantic plot line so poorly executed that if you care about anything in this film you are as sad as it is. American stereotyping that stretches to giving an Computer Operating System a female personality.
"Her" consists of shots of Theodor "Phoenix" talking to "Samantha," a Computer Operating System voiced by Scarlett Johansson.
He is a bore with a failed marriage and is lonely. He plays video games but appears to have no other interest or activity. His computer's new operating system has a sexy voice. He has a relationship with this voice. The relationship consists of him chatting with the computer about how sad and lonely he feels and how he wishes he were in love and in a relationship. Theodore reminisces about his marriage. He also jerks off in an awful bit of telephone type sexy as Samantha discovers her sexuality and the "double date scene is ridiculous.
You cannot empathise with a computer voice – end. The movie is inert. Nothing funny or challenging or profound or original or intriguing or witty or daring is said or done. There's no development of the idea. The movie's end could just as well have been the movie's middle or even its beginning. There is so much inept nothing up on the screen I'm astounded that this movie was even released.
So there you have it Man falls in love with computer, computer breaks up with him and runs off with the 8000 other associated OS systems to live happily ever after in Cyberspace, leaving the man lost. Dumb, dumber and dumberer.