Post by movieliker on Sept 23, 2020 5:28:14 GMT
The special effects are good. I liked the way the robots looked. The cinematography was good. Beautiful scenery. But this is ExMachina all over again --- except not as good.
The main character is not attractive. Yes, he's good looking. But his personality is awful. He's rude, offensive, disrespectful, thoughtless, and inconsiderate. So much so, one of his three robots actually commits suicide because of him. Yep, really. I personally couldn't blame it. At least it wouldn't have to put up with the main character anymore.
His wife bounces back and forth between melodramatically fatalistic, and annoyingly childish. And I didn't find her physically attractive either, when she was alive. Although her robot form looked good. (If you like desperately skinny women.)
We pretty much know --- crazy anti-social and paranoid scientist living alone in a northern forest, keeping his life's work a secret from the funding corporation, is bound to end badly.
The shocking surprise twist at the end did surprise me. But it wasn't shocking. I've seen it before in other movies.
This movie has serious pacing problems. I think I fell asleep during the middle, it was moved so slowly.
The music is futuristic, but exhastingly intense.
I like movies about the future, robots and AI. But the two main characters were so unappealing, they ruined it for me.
I gave it a "10" for subject material, special effects, and cinematography. And a "1" for character appeal and pacing. "5" is my rating on the original IMDb.
Did you see it? What did you think?