Ex Machina

El Biffo

It occurred to me that if the writers are purporting that Google is processing our thought patterns far beyond the simple act of collecting and re-selling info to advertisers, they must be doing so already, or there would be a lot more profit in that for the film makers than there would be in just making this picture.. What really made this film for me was the choreographed dance number with Nathan and robot Kyoko.

Rafael Zen

For being a debut, this is really good. It has the coolness and the mood of a cult classic + really charismatic actors. Isaac, Gleeson and Vikander own the screen and make us fall in love with the whole idea. This is what I call a nice blockbuster sci fi.

Michael Zyx MH Claes

Good scenes with beautiful Chelsea LI, nice special effects & an interesting psychological face-to-face ISAAC/GLEESON. But lots of blahblah slow down the rhythm & WHY this super ugly dress for Alicia VIKANDER?= La belle Chelsea LI, des effets spéciaux sympa et 1 huis clos intéressant. Mais du bavardage ralentit le rythme & pquoi cette tenue hyper moche pour Alicia VIKANDER? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moHvkOZdmVA

Mugino

A film that says more about the chasm between men and women (or Alex Garland and women) than human and A.I. Though wonderfully acted and elegantly executed, this just adds to the pile of SF cliches by posers who only pretend to understand A.I. and neuroscience. Calling this "thought provoking" betrays an absence of adequate thought.

Graveyard Poet

If you want to watch a thought provoking science fiction film about artificial intelligence, watch 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner. Or, deepest and most profound of all, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris. Skip this superficial sex robot story which pretends to be smart but is completely soulless.

Zach Closs

An ingenious, paranoid character study, one that plays against the expectations of genre nuts in particular. Glides on performances and dialogue, underplaying its Oscar-winning visual effects. Avoids Kubrickian detachment like the plague; it's tantalizingly alive, with eccentricities, humour, terror and consequence-laden eroticism.

Skinnedteen

The more I think about this film, the less meaningful it is. Too much emphasis on the binary and tries to be subversive even though it ends up succumbing to the male gaze in terms of how this gendered robot is just another projection of male fantasies.

Daniel S.

'Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul' used to say my friend François Rabelais some 600 years ago and he was damn right! Oscar -Nathan- Isaac may be extremely wealthy and very good at mathematics, he's nevertheless totally ignorant. If he simply had taken the time to read the Three Laws of Robotics Isaac Asimov (a good friend of mine too) established not so long ago, he'd have deserved my respect.