Great Concept but nothing beyond that!

Rating: 2/10 (11 January 2014)

There was so much talk and publicity about this movie especially on the Jon Stewart show that I decided to go and see what it was all about.
First off it is a neat concept...not based on a book, not a sequel and not a comic book hero.
The premise surrounds Theodore who works in what I thought was a dead end job (outsourced Greeting card/letter writing)...and is struggling through a divorce. In the typical pattern of a man trying to find his own after a particularly traumatic divorce - he has shut himself from the world and is still trying to reconcile with the fact that his relationship is over. In the midst of all this he stumbles upon a new OS with the latest artificial intelligence and of course opts for a woman's voice (Scarlet). The manner in which the two of them build up their relationship was really well done and Theodore..armed with a web cam shows Samantha his world and allows her to feel connected and human.
There could have been a lot done with the story from here..but oh well....first they touch each other....then they fall in "love"...and then Sam gets jealous that Theodore's ex wife has a body and finds a "surrogate" to help close that gap. It is an awkward scene where she's in both their ears and they try to get romantic and physical...
The meeting that Theodore has with his wife highlights his inability to communicate and deal with emotions. However instead he continues to slip into his relationship with Sam...and I'll spare you 1.5 hours and just tell you that Sam eventually dumps hims for another OS with a Brit Accent.
I honestly thought that the movie would veer towards talking through how eventually he gets to realize that technology while exceptional and realistic can never substitute real world relationships..and having to deal with the joy/sadness that they bring. And focus more on the fact that in our technology obsessed world we cannot and should not lose sight of that.
Eventually at the end of the movie once he is dumped by Sam...Theo realizes that...but I would have liked to see that realization come on his own and not just by getting dumped!
Anyways just my 2 cents...but this is one of those movies that you can wait for it be released on Netflix streaming or buy a copy as a joke on someone's birthday...
A great concept...but nothing more...