At Heart, the Kind of Stuff Hollywood Actors Like

Rating: 4/10 (24 October 2014)

I'm still trying to figure out why I sat through the whole movie. I suppose I was hoping, and waiting, for something meaningful to happen. This is the kind of claptrap that Critics Who Think They're Important pretend to like because their friends and other "smart" people seem to like it. But, this emperor has no clothes. I started watching it because the premise sounded interesting: a guy falling in love with an artificially intelligent operating system. Scarlett J's voice (the OS) was interesting at first, but then it started to grate. More important, the characters were so self absorbed it was painful to watch. Eventually I thought I was in a therapy group for bad actors and pseudo intellectual Hollywood writers. Toward the end of the movie I couldn't help but exclaim to Theodore (the main character): Loser! A perfect movie for Saturday Night Live (from the old days) to lampoon or Woody Allen to satirize. Otherwise, don't waste your time. By the way, the reason I rated it a 4 and not lower is that the they did a reasonable job of making one believe it was set in the near high tech future (except for the premise that there would be a demand for handwritten letters, that people would read printed textbooks, etc.).