Ex Machina

If you want to see more of the 2 male leads, watch Star Wars 7. For our Turing test loving friends, she can be seen in The man from U.N.C.L.E. The reason I'm mentionning where you can see them again is because you should already be finishing this one and wanting more of their performances.

Artificial Intelligence without borders. The kind you didn't think about, and yet should. Superb shots and excellent play by Alicia Vikander, who manages to keep your interest when the expected surprises don't happen. There's a chance you'll even forgive the less than imaginative turns and frail ending.

Face value interpretation of AI bad, or good, or whatever aside, let's look at the flick. "Robots bad" kind of ignores the larger views of existentialism, god complexes, inferiority complexes, vanity, envy....they hit all the classics. This one punches you in the mouth with a wonderfully cliched sci fi premise, undermines that with some extremely well presented esoteric metaphor, and hits it home with some of the best cinematography and sound design you have ever come across. Oscar Isaac dance party? I'll take 2 please. In 2020, the year of the plague, some of the effects don't hold up incredibly well, but considering the middling budget at the time, it still looks pretty damn good. All in all, a must watch for any sci fi fan, or anyone willing to sit through what can also be described as an excercise in tension management.