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Ex Machina 2015

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Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, EX MACHINA. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company's brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test--charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan's latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated--and more deceptive--than the two men could have imagined.

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Domhnall Gleeson, Corey Johnson
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1 hour, 48 minutes

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Genres Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Director Alex Garland
Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Corey Johnson
Supporting actors Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno, Claire Selby, Symara A. Templeman, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Tiffany Pisani, Elina Alminas, Chelsea Li, Caitlin Morton, Deborah Rosan, Johanna Thea, Evie Wray
Studio A24 Films, LLC
MPAA rating R (Restricted)
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5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant; You'll Never Look at the Genre the Same Way Again
By ShogunTee on April 18, 2015
Format: Amazon Video
Not that the genre has ever really gone out of style or ever will, but the last year has seen a number of movies on artificial intelligence. Even the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron deals with evil robots turning on their masters. We get it; the robots will all eventually kill us but can't it be done in a way that we haven't seen before? Can't we be entertained before the robots destroy us? Ex Machina, which marks the directorial debut by 28 Days Later, Never Let Me Go, and Sunshine writer Alex Garland, is exactly the film we've been waiting for. A haunting and thrilling look at technology taken to the ultimate degree, it will make you look at every other movie about artificial intelligence in a whole new way.

Garland has become synonymous with taking familiar stories and giving them a fresh spin, whether it is zombie flicks or deep space sci-fi. Ex Machina may be the smartest film he's ever done. Think about a movie like Her, which found a man falling in love with his operating system. Ex Machina takes a similar tract, but really digs into what the idea of an intelligent thinking machine could mean. Like people, there would be shades of grey; there would be human weaknesses, human desires, and even baser human traits.

The machine at the center of this story is Ava (the lovely Alicia Vikander), a name that is deliberately a play on Adam & Eve. Ava is a sleekly designed cybernetic creation, a body of circuits inside a crystalline shell with a beautiful woman's face. The man who invented her, Nathan (Oscar Isaac), is an eccentric tech genius who lives out in the middle of nowhere in a state-of-the-art estate. As the inventor of Blue Book, the world's top search engine, Nathan has everything he could ever want or need.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars(BLU RAY UPDATE) Sci-fi perfection and the best film I've seen so far in 2015
By M. Oleson TOP 500 REVIEWER on April 26, 2015
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Theatrical review. Possible spoilers. According to several sources, the movie title is derived from the Latin, Deus Ex Machina which translates to "god from the machine." It evolved over time as a theatrical plot device whereby an unsolvable problem is resolved by a contrived or unexpected intervention. I suspect both meanings and variations have a place in this beautifully conceived sci-fi film. Written by Alex Garland who also gets his first director assignment covers ground we've seen before (artificial intelligence) but manages with a beauty and grace unrealized in other films. I'm talking to you "Chappie." For those who aren't familiar with Garland, he wrote "28 Days Later" (2002) and the underrated "Sunshine" (2007). The later film in particular, has a style and feel of "Ex Machina."

The story is a simple one. Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson, "About Time") plays a 26 year old programmer working for a company not unlike Apple in the near future. He wins a contest where he gets to spend the week at the remote home/laboratory of the company's eccentric founder, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac, "A Most Violent Year"). Nathan walks around barefoot, gets drunk most nights and is less than a thoughtful host. No one is at the compound other than Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno), an assistant who doesn't speak English.

After some dancing around, Nathan gets to the reason Caleb has been selected to spend time at the lab. He is to interview a new model of A.I. known as Ava (Alicia Vikander, "Seventh Son"). Performing what is known as the "Turing Test," his job is to see if Ava can truly think for herself based on the advanced programming Nathan has created. Ava's initial appearance is a bit startling.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsGreat movie. Very smart, and very much worth seeing. But I could see the ending coming.
By V. Westerband on November 15, 2015
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SPOILERS!
Great movie. While smart, if you really think about it, the ending couldn't really have happened any other way. Nathan Bateman plays a modern day Frankenstein, with a monster that's beautiful and disarming. But, sooner or later, Nathan's ego would have made him slip up, and if you really think about it, one of the reasons why humans care about one another is because we have similar goals, interests, and genetic history. An actual A.I. would have virtually NONE of that in common with us save for sentience, and perhaps a need to survive.

It also doesn't help that Nathan basically just want's something with sentience that he can enslave. He wants to feel power over someone, and even twists Caleb's comments at one point into praise of godhood. Nathan heard what he wanted to hear. That should tell the audience the mindset of the man right away.

As for the ending... look at how biological humans treat other animals, with whom we have MUCH more in common. We kill them for food, sport often to the point of extinction. If they're lucky, well ignore them or perhaps enslave and domesticate them. Often we don't even treat other humans well. A different sentience, with different origins, would not feel a connection to us. What's more, when you really get down to it, what could possibly have happened? Could Caleb and Ava have run off and had a happy life together, with a house and two kids? Preposterous. Not even remotely possible.

The story had to end badly for the Caleb. I couldn't even call him the "protagonist". He was more of an enabler, than anything. He pushed the plot along. He was the wrench thrown in the works that made the ending inevitable.Read more ›
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