Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

From my perspective, truly good science fiction raises more questions than it answers, and Ex Machina is fantastic at doing exactly that. The film is shot beautifully, and all three of the leads are fantastic. From a strict cinematic perspective it is exceptionally written, directed, acted, scored, produced, etc...Having said all of that, I believe Ex Machina becomes truly extraordinary if you view it for a second time holding this one consideration in your mind; Caleb is the subject of the Turing test - and it is Ava administering the test. Great film

Haunting movie and take on machines - especially how she didn't even look at him after she had broken out - and especially in the increasingly technological world. This movie is fantastic.

Entertaining and thought provoking exploration of the consequences of creating humanoids with advanced artificial intelligence. Will they replace humans?

I wasn't too intrigued when I saw the trailer and had skipped the title, but I saw it on a sale out and was curious whether my initial judgement was right.And it was right unfortunately. There isn't much to find here, but beautiful scenery and Oscar Isaac makes a convicable unlikable character, but on the flipside he isn't a convincing scientist or CEO of a big company.The conversations with the robot are dumb. "What's your favourite color?" Sounds like a question a 5 year old would ask.The turing test is messed up to some weird 2.0 version which doesn't make any sense.The CEO only makes female robots because he's a HNG, I guess. He sucks so much at coding that he only makes robots that want to kill him and escape the compound. He often wipes the memories of the robots out of frustration. He also seems to have a lot of non-nerdy and non-geeky hobbies. Shooting pool, Working out, binge-drinking... Oscar Isaac does come off as an unlikable character though, so I have to give credit to that.The robots are pretty dumb. One of them can't even talk.The invited HNG is very bland. He makes a convincing naive person and that's it.On the topic of AI almost all the other movies out there do a far better job; A.I., I-Robot, Blade Runner, Blader Runner 2049, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, Transcendence, The machine and even Morgan is better than this.The movie seems to be made by people that don't understand A.I.TL:DR version / Synopsis: 2 HNG fail at making Real Doll 2.0