Well made, but utterly clueless

Rating: 1/10 (23 February 2014)

Phoenix plays Theodore who buys a version of the first Interactive, Artificially Intelligent Operating Systems somewhere in the near future. For some obscure reason, people manage to develop personal relationships with these operating Systems including, but not limited to, sexual experiences. Theodore 'falls in love' with his OS and some ridiculous and obvious complications ensue.
Apart from a well thought out depiction of what the world would look like if we manage to maintain our childlike game/app dependency, the film offers no deeper philosophies or intellectual thought. It in stead meanders around the thoroughly unbelievable premise of some guy falling in love with his PC while he's playing 3D, holographic games in his living room. Why Samantha, his OS, couldn't think of a way to interface with this holographic technology to surrogate a body, but in stead hires some weirdo to pass off as a go between, is never even touched upon.
In short, the film gets a few ideas right in terms of extrapolating our near future but fails to also give us an incentive to care about the main characters or the implications of enhanced PC/Phone technology. There is nothing in terms of plot or screenplay worthy of more than just a few chuckles. MST3K came to mind several times.. A wasted opportunity.