a5c7b9f00b A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being. Aside from being contrived and predictable from the get go, this movie is just statistically unrealistic. You can&#39;t possibly expect so many people in any given group or setting to be so haphazardly idiotic and lacking any character one could sympathize with. Even the &quot;good&quot; characters always seem to choose the most difficult and retarded way of actionopposed to the simplest and most obvious.<br/><br/>But then, &quot;contrived&quot; is flavor of the month, alas. There seem to be too many of these movies latelyif preparing us for… oh, I don&#39;t know, some sort of robot invasion for the lack of a better word? What&#39;s worth, the viewer is somehow expected to empathize with these contrived emotions.<br/><br/>If it was supposed to be a revelation of sort, it failed justmiserablyEx Machina. Perhaps, there&#39;s just no good way to convey a story of this kind given its inherent conundrum. This is a sci-fi horror movie about an &quot;artificial&quot; human (Morgan,she was named) who physically matures much quicker than normal humans thanks to synthetic DNA developed by a genetic company. In the movie, Morgan is referred toa humanoid but the term is actually used for mechanical robots that look like human. In this case, Morgan is a flesh and bone character with some synthetic genes infused to her DNA and we&#39;re expected to consider her a &quot;thing.&quot; This is outright silly in today&#39;s norms where we discuss the human rights of an embryo. We also understand that the first thing all &quot;humanoids&quot; excel is martial arts. Despite its pretentious philosophical dressing, the movie is all about Morgan biting off ears and noses, mauling all those crossing her path with the usual blood and gore fest. In summary, this is a typical sci-fi horror flick with a mediocre acting and directing, worsened by weak, unconvincing and predictable plot. It’s little more than a schlock replay of “Ex Machina.” It toys around with some of the same situations, but it doesn’t know where to take them. Instead of developing its themes, it uses themgrist for an overload of “commercial” action.
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