Sci-fi fans listen up. A very good film from first-time director Alex Garland awaits you.
Nathan (Oscar Isaac) is a billionaire Bill Gates / Steve Jobs / Jack Mar type who lives in a remote house / laboratory where he invents and experiments with artificial intelligence and robotics. The result of his work is a rather attractive and intelligent female robot Ava (Alicia Vikander). Nathan invites one of his employees Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) to come to his house for a week and interact with Ava, ostensibly to evaluate her capabilities. Unfortunately for some of the characters in this story things don’t turn out as planned.
It is a rare treat to watch such an intelligent sci-fi film. It could so easily have degenerated into the usual predictable crap, but it didn’t.
Nigel.
Nathan (Oscar Isaac) is a billionaire Bill Gates / Steve Jobs / Jack Mar type who lives in a remote house / laboratory where he invents and experiments with artificial intelligence and robotics. The result of his work is a rather attractive and intelligent female robot Ava (Alicia Vikander). Nathan invites one of his employees Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) to come to his house for a week and interact with Ava, ostensibly to evaluate her capabilities. Unfortunately for some of the characters in this story things don’t turn out as planned.
It is a rare treat to watch such an intelligent sci-fi film. It could so easily have degenerated into the usual predictable crap, but it didn’t.
Nigel.
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