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Runtime: 108 min
Rating: Rated R for graphic nudity, language, sexual references and some violence
Official Site: http://meet-ava.com/
Production: Film4
Genres: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Countries: USA, UK
Language: English
Director: Alex Garland
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac
Ex Machina (2015) Critic Review: A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I.
IMDB By 8.0 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752
Ex Machina Movie Review By MDBReviews
Sagaciously envisioned and powerfully made, "Ex Machina" is a spooky bit of theoretical fiction that is totally conceivable, fit for both preparing to stun the world musings and giving mash thrills. Yet actually saying that doesn't do this unobtrusively alarming film full equity.
The convincing directorial introduction for author and screenwriter Alex Garland, "Ex Machina" is additionally an including chamber show emphasizing passionate moves and countermoves by a trio of people played by Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander. But one of them just happens to be machine-made.
The title "Ex Machina" originates from the Latin expression deus ex machina, interpreted as god from the machine. Its inceptions need to do with Greek dramatization, however the reference here is to man playing god, to the unthought-of difficulties included in making conscious life.
Stories about manmade brainpower are a continuous sci-fi subject, from Czech essayist Karel Capek's 1920 play "R.U.R." to Spike Jonze's imperceptible "Her." But the blundering picture that "robot" passes on is all wrong for Ava, stunningly played by Vikander, an animal of supernatural delicacy and excellence who deliberately doesn't look like AI we've seen some time recently. All the while credulous and knowing, she is by all accounts finding the world just before our eyes.
Before we get to Ava, be that as it may, we meet Caleb Smith, expertly played by Gleeson, who here joins a touch of sagacious with his trademark open-confronted honesty.
Caleb works for Blue Book, the world's most successful Internet search engine, and the film opens with his winning first prize in a company-wide lottery. He's to spend a week with Blue Book's brilliant and fabulously wealthy but reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Isaac), who lives such a removed life in the wilds of Alaska that you can helicopter for two hours over his property and still not reach his house.
As played by the chameleon-like Isaac, Nathan is a formidable individual, intimidating mentally, physically and psychologically. With his buzz cut, full beard and imposing physique, the man is arrogant and self-involved. He clearly thinks he knows it all, but does he, and even if he does, how completely can he be trusted?
Nathan's compound is not just a house; it's a research facility filled with "enough fiber optic cable to go to the moon and lasso it." Living alone except for Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno), an enigmatic Japanese servant who speaks no English, Nathan has been working on creating artificial intelligence and now wants to put his creation to the test.
So Caleb is there, as it turns out, to do a kind of Touring testn Nathan's creation to determine whether Ava is capable of experiencing real emotions or just simulating them.
One reason for the success of "Ex Machina" is that Ava herself, in terms of design, acting and technology, is such a remarkable and compelling creation. Conceived by the comic book artist known as Jock, her look combines shiny mesh with translucent material on her arms and torso that reveal the mechanism within. "You can see that I am a machine" is one of the first things Ava says to Caleb, and, after six months of post-production work by Andrew Whitehurst of VFX house Double Negative, the film's visual effects supervisor, that edgy combination of human and machine is exactly what we see.
None of the effects would function as persuasively as they do without the initial work of Swedish actress Vikander, best known for that country's Oscar-nominated "A Royal Affair." In addition to being a fine actress, Vikander is trained as a ballerina, so she's capable of unsettlingly precise movements that convincingly position her as a combination of human and machine.
"Ex Machina" is organized around a progression of day by day discussion sessions that Caleb has with Ava in a glass-walled perception room, progressively personal visits that Nathan spies on by means of shut circuit cams.
As these two visit, exchange, even tease, their passionate association fortifies, which brings up any number of enticing issues. What are the ramifications, the obligations, the results of getting sincerely included with a machine?
Laurel has composed sci-fi screenplays before , and he is totally at home in the class. It was, for occurrence, his thought that Ava's discernment originates from Nathan's capacity to hack into the majority of the world's advanced gadgets.
Significantly more noteworthy, given that this is his coordinating presentation, is Garland's capacity to keep the film calm yet seriously including. A scene of Ava putting on garments is as sexually charged as somebody taking them off in a more traditional highlight.
Laurel has additionally procured all the right individuals, including cinematographer Rob Hardy, manager Mark Day and creation creator Mark Digby. The film's aural component, consolidating sound outline by "Gravity" Oscar champ Glenn Freemantle with a score by Geoff Barrow of Portishead and Ben Salisbury, is computed to keep us shaky and unsettled from start to finish. In a film like "Ex Machina," that is simply the way it ought to be.
Top Reviews
Matthew Lickona | San Diego Reader
Oscar Isaac - buffed, bald, and bearded - is the film's dramatic
center as Nathan, a man betrayed by his own genius. He struts, he
speechifies, he schemes, he scolds, all friendly menace and sly
frankness.
Chris Sawin | Examiner.com
Ex Machina is incredibly slow moving and never really escalates to an
exciting pace, but its slow burn mentality and ability to ignore being
rushed is what makes it so enticing. This is a film that undeniably
revitalizes the sci-fi genre.
Steven Rea | Philadelphia Inquirer
Like stage actors who live and breathe their roles over the course of
months, Isaac, Gleeson, and Vikander excel, and cast a spell.
Liz Braun | Toronto Sun
This futuristic take on age-old motivations, jealousy and betrayal
among them, makes Ex Machina clever and engaging throughout.
Chris Knight | National Post
This is Garland's first turn as director, and it suits him; he's
created a cautionary tale that entertains even as it forces us to think.
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