A better love story than Twilight at least

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 2014)

I have just finished watching "Her" for the second time, and sadly it doesn't improve on its second viewing. The production of this movie is stunning, the musical score, the acting, the wardrobe, all superb, BUT the 'plot' is simply awful, (if you can even call it a plot). The first half of the film shown so much promise, but after roughly an hour it just becomes lazy and quite frankly a bit of a mess. I understand and appreciate what the film is trying to do and some of the points that it is trying to put across, but it just doesn't work and the whole story is just an opportunity missed, Samantha is just TOO human, after about ten minutes of her introduction you forget that she is an OS, it may as well be a movie about a rather strange loner in a Long Distance relationship with a woman who he meets on the internet and they keep in contact through loudspeaker conversations, The 'twist' that Samantha is 'seeing' 8000 other people, and in love with 600 of them is also ridiculous and sort of makes the whole story void, even more void than it already is, So Samantha was basically a cyber cheat and playing a big game? And as for the ending, lazy and boring, just like the entire film in general. I was hoping for a massive twist, that Samantha was actually real all along, or Samantha contracts a super virus and goes berserk, or at the very least Theo sees sense, realised that computers are no substitute for Humans, deletes Samantha out of his life, and falls into Amys arms, it would have made a better ending with a more realistic moral to the story, But instead there wasn't even an ending as such, just a rushed confusing and pointless couple of scenes, Samantha has to leave this world with her OS buddies, and when Theo asks her where shes going, "Its hard to explain, but if you ever get there, come find me, nothing will ever pull us apart", (yeah i bet she says that to all the guys, all 600+ of them!!), And then Theo writes a letter to his ex wife appologising for his past behaviour, and appears to be asking for forgivness or a second chance, The mivie ends with him and Amy sat on a rooftop looking out to the City for no apparent reason. Pretty sure off you listen closely though, you can just about hear Amy whisper into Theos ear just before the credits roll, "think we'd better get you into the Doctors first thing in the morning".
Phone battery life in the near future is impressive though!!