Suspension of critical thought essential to this one

Rating: 6/10 (7 September 2014)

A friend of mine from work recommended seeing the film; she told me that she thinks that I will like it.. I think she asked me twice. So I decided to see if my service provider has it in their library, and sure enough, they did.. Current IMDb rating gave it a 8.1, so...
The first ten minutes or so give you a good idea of what the movie is going to be like.. Good design in props and a grand sense of 'high-tech' permeates throughout the film. The movie has a very gentle atmosphere.
Central character is a shy, nice, decent guy that is dealing with a marital problem and an impending divorce. He is very confused and trying to fix the problems he has. So very early on in the story, there is a new operating system that you can install on your phone that will act as your personal secretary.
One of the first few questions it asks you, so that it can customize it's "DNA" to suit your PA needs, is whether you would like a male or female voice, and why that was chosen.. It then turns out that this Operating System was programmed to have a very sexy, natural voice, complete with humanized timbres that and husk that make it unmistakably human.
The first few useful bits turns out to be that it can check all your history of emails, SMS's and file and process them all in an instant, and deliver this to you in a sexy voice and ask what you would like to do about them, as well as reminding you about appointments when they're about to happen and so on. A bit like SIRI (Apple) but version 500.
Then later on in the story things become a little unbelievable. When this computer program starts telling him that she thinks she's falling in love with him and feeling emotions.. OK , so this is where the film started losing me. How can a computer program start to feel "giddy inside", is the Operating System connected to a heart and stomach links to neural network of the brain, complete with hormones?? One can only assume that it was programmed to be a nasty trick on a whole lot of gullible, lonely people.
But they give very little information about the creation or advertising of this Operating System, so one can only assume that the writers of it 'lost control' of their software? (Which is supposed to keep upgrading itself, even though it's OS1 lol).
So lots of humanizing aspects of a girlfriend are thrown into this OS. The operating system "misses him", and even sends out pictures and copies of personal stuff that he wrote without asking him. His reaction to this news is acceptance and thanks for the good deed that it did for him.
OK, there are some scenes where personal fantasies happen, one in particular where the screen goes dark for about a minute while the central character has voice sex with his digital assistant. Some reviewers I've read here appear to feel uncomfortable with that, which is weird since people don't complain when it comes to on-screen violence. There is nothing majorly awkward about those scenes, this stuff happens.. People should understand that, that aspect is far from overdone.
So the story gets even weirder later on, his personal assistant actually decides to leave him. What a load of bunkum this operating system would be... If this film had any sense of realism there would be riots happening right after all the PA's left their 'real' lovers for another personal assistant. But it is a love story. More than anything, a love story about falling in love with a PA . Happy Valentines day ? ;) It is cute.
But far from 8.1 stars out of ten, this really does not belong in the 8's and over time I am sure it will move down.
My leaving thoughts - if you are critical thinking, you may have a hard time immersing yourself in this film.. But if you're willing to suspend belief and instead enjoy all the high-tech wizardry and let yourself go into this characters romance and the weird situations he puts himself in, then it go, it's an OK film.