This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Brilliant and touching

best movie i've ever seen.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

There is a plausible explanation for everything but let us not forget that in Sci-fi, one has to agree that this is true. You see in the world of science fiction, we crossover into another dimension which Rod Serling explains so well as a "world of sight and sound of things and ideas" but no longer in this zone but the another called Twilight. Here in this movie, we enter into the plot with full senses watching and reading the scenes and enjoying the movie as it unfolds. During this time, the viewers imagination is activated and captured. This movie makes you think and wonder and for me that's good sci-fi. The acting and story premises all handled well. Enjoy a nice snack with a tasty drink while watching. Make it through the end credits too as there is another scene wanting to add to your already viewing pleasures. If you want your head to hurt some, just read some of the theories and sharings by others online Uncanny? NO just decent sci-fi

Reporter Joy Andrews (Lucy Griffiths) does an in-depth week-long interview with tech scientist David Kressen (Mark Webber). He introduces her to Adam (David Clayton Rogers) and later reveals that Adam is actually an AI robot. His wealthy boss Castle (Rainn Wilson) monitors the situation from afar.Coming out around the same time, this was being overshadowed by the indie hit Ex Machina. There is an obvious visual CGI wow factor about Ex Machina that this does not have. Leaving that aside, they are both traveling on similar and well-worn sci-fi lanes. The acting for both male leads is limited to the stiff robotic nerd persona or an actual robot. Griffiths has an easy presence. I'm always taken by her brilliant blue eyes. This is an extended Twilight Zone episode or Black Mirror for the modern audience. It's a perfectly capable film that stays compelling to the end.

Mind boggling! In the sense that it's so difficult to imagine, but the unforeseen twist near the end explains so much. This is a film I will definitely recommend and can talk at great length about. But there is so much I cannot say, so as to not ruin your experience. So I will tell you what little I can.David is a young man, a genius, and he has been cooped up in a huge workshop environment. This is where he works on constructing robotics, bionics and where he generates scientific research. Ground breaking research. So it comes as no surprise that this is a man with many secrets. And there are few which are not his to share. He is working for Castle, an enigmatic figure who has offered David this opportunity to create anything, with anything.David is not alone at this workshop, for he has someone with him: Adam. He is a strange man, but is he man at all? No, for he's David's creation- a robot. They get along well: David and Adam, like brothers. But then their relationship becomes strained, marked by the arrival of an intelligent, beautiful young woman: Joy Andrews. What happens then? Can a robot feel anything? Can a robot become human? Believe it or not, I have not revealed the whole film. There are more intelligently crafted surprises this film has to offer.I am not exaggerating when I declare this film was 'intelligently crafted', if anything that is an understatement. It's just that when the big secret was revealed, so much was explained. All that stuff I barely noticed, all those strange occurrences, it was a jigsaw missing a vital piece. And at the end, everything slotted into place. This film was so well though out, and so brilliantly put together.Also, I especially liked the acting, just as well as the dialogue. David Clayton Rogers, who plays Adam, was brilliant and his dialogue was especially passionate and at times, quite inspiring. And to think there are only four characters in this film and only really two locations. Amazing! It had me thinking Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, at some points. Is the creator and the creation one and the same? Is the creation an illusion?

From thequickflickcritic.blogspot.com/ Too often it is not an encouraging signal when I see an army of Executive and customary film Producers presented on screen before the story even gets underway. However, so many times this is what it takes to fund a movie, particularly if it is a modest independent like "Uncanny". The hope is that it doesn't wind up being a case of too many cooks spoiling the resultant broth. Gratefully, veteran indy Director Matthew Leutwyler's sci-fi fantasy rewards resplendently with this tale of a robot behaving "uncannily" like a human, in what is essentially a lower profile version of last year's much bigger budgeted yet underwhelming "Ex Machina".Lucy Griffiths (HBO's "True Blood") is as naturally talented as she is beautiful in the role of Joy, a high-tech magazine writer who is on a week-long assignment being introduced to the top-secret inventions fashioned in a cutting edge lab known as "Workspace 18". She meets and comes to know long-cloistered genius David and his most cherished "accomplishment", Adam (a not-so-subtle Biblical reference), an astonishing creation of Artificial Intelligence that, at first, completely passes for a man of flesh and blood in her eyes. Joy will learn that while Adam's physical being is one thing, this programmed fellow's emotional WELL-being is a whole different breed of animal.Early on in these proceedings, I got the spooky sense that this unusual visit was heading inexorably down an ominous road. My hunch was later realized as the relationship among the principle characters degenerates into a warped and progressively dangerous brand of love triangle. The persistent aura of uneasiness was insistently and effectively enhanced by the eerily atmospheric score courtesy of Music Director Craig Richey.In time the only question here becomes how calamitous will be the climax? "Uncanny" ultimately presents a pair of back-to-back twists with which to wrestle. Unlike me, you may see one or both of them coming. I am of the notion that at least ONE of these predicaments can be rectified. But in the end, the beauty of this deliciously unorthodox conundrum Leutwyler leaves us with is this: The cold conclusion that NONE of us can REALLY know for sure.For more of my Movie Reviews categorized by Genre please visit: thequickflickcritic.blogspot.com/