Short & Spoiler Free

It’s an interesting attempt at predicting what would happen if people guided by their own personal vanity and secret twisted fantasies create AIs (Artificial Intelligence)so perfect they could just as well be human. I guess it could as well serve as a cautionary tale.

Oscar Isaac plays a brilliant but obsessive and slightly kooky engineer with a god complex on the pursuit of constructing a robot that actually has feelings. He gets the young and gullible Nathan, played by Domnhall Gleeson to test his creation’s humanity and thus involves him in his perverted little game.

One of the most memorable scenes that come to mind when thinking of Isaac’s character is the dance scene with his other robotic companion. Watching it really sends chills down your spine. It is a marvelous manifestation of his twisted nature.

The action takes a bit longer to pick up but once it does it doesn’t disappoint by giving us quite the dark and unexpected ending. It leaves many questions and it makes the viewers wonder whether they’d really like it if technology progressed so much that AIs could freely walk the earth. Who would prevail in a battle face to face? Who would be superior – human or robot?

The smashing CGI makes the whole story even more believable and truly enticing.