Ex Machina review

Ex Machina review

Ex Machine is a science fiction film about a lad that wins a competition and the prize was too meet the owner of the company and spend a week with him. When the lad arrives there is completely isolated and there is no one around, it is all a bit weird. Then Nathan who is the owner, then shows the lad around the building and when he shows him where he will be sleeping he offers him a chance to see what the guy is working on. Before Nathan shows him what he is working on the lad needs to sign a secrecy act form. He isn’t keen on signing it at first but then he does because Nathan tempts him and puts pressure on him. Then he introduces that what he is working on is an A.I (artificial intelligence). Then the lad gets too meet the robot. They spend a lot of time together then he realises that the robot is cleverer than he thought and that he hadn’t won a competition, he had been chosen because he is single, no parents etc. and he would work perfect with the experiment. He then realises what Nathan is doing there and starts to try and find a way for the robot to escape. He does this and then she ends up leaving without him and returns to the human world.

I think that taking in to account the budget the film was made on they did a very good job of using the special effects they did. They also wanted to make it different than other sci-fi films so they installed 15,000 mini tungsten pea bulbs. They also did well with the actors they didn’t have any A list actors so their box office results were very good bearing in mind they didn’t have any A list actors. But they did have a good story line and left it wide open if they wanted to do prequel and make another. So they did well by leaving it on a massive cliff hanger because no one knows what happened to the robot or Kaylen.

There was quite a lot of bad points to the film which I picked out and the fact that we don’t find out what happened to Kaylen which was really annoying. The other is that it was a bit slow at the start. He was seeing the robot but we didn’t know what the point of him seeing it was for and we didn’t know where it was going there was nothing to suggest she was trying to escape, then it all happened really quick so it was a bit rushed. Also at the end Kaylen says he reprogrammed the doors to open not lock when there is a power cut but then when she leaves he is locked Inside and this didn’t work.

Overall I would give the film a 3.5 out of 10 because the story line was good and it was gripping, but the ending was very rushed and it all happened really quickly. They did leave it on a good cliff hanger though and if there was another I would defiantly go and see it.