Margaux

It's good looking (for the most part, the CGI is trash) and well acted and I am ecstatic to see two Black female leads in a sci-fi horror. I'm sure, despite the actual problems this movie has, this qualifies it as "wOkE" and may immediately lead to bad reviews from certain people. But yeah, the actual issue is nothing....and I mean nothing....about this movie makes sense. First of all, it isn't a smarthouse. Ihas what can only be described as superpowers? How? Never explained. What's the white goo everywhere? Never explained. Why aren't the authorities at least 'concerned' about a house no one ever returns from? Never explained. Who built the house? Never explained. The house's motive? Explained but nonsensical. This was bad and I'm only giving three stars for the positive reasons I stated.

This would have been better if they didn't include CGI/VFX robot arms and white liquid. It would have made the movie more realistic and more fun to watch. With the ridiculous robot arms it was just distracting because they were just poorly done and made the whole thing seem silly instead of funny.

The characters also didn't even react much to freaking CLONES in front of them at the beginning of the movie. How can you just dismiss that and continue partying? I know some of them were stoned, but not all of them. They just giggled and continued talking like nothing fantastic happened. I know it's supposed to be a horror-comedy movie, but they should have put a bit more effort to make it less ridiculous.

For this genre Margaux is watchable. There are far worse movies in this category. But it's not that we've never seen this story before, artificial intelligence that turns against humans, it's been done before. Interesting to watch though, certainly the first part of the movie. I wasn't too impressed by the second part, that's where the story went a bit too ridiculous and you could see the writers got sloppy. Decent slashing scenes couldn't really save the movie. As for the acting it could have been much worse so fairplay for that. Overall the movie is entertaining, certainly over the top as we're very far from anything that could be possible that they show in this sci-fi/horror movie.

A group of friends take a holiday in a smart house, a house that is run by AI system Margeaux, a technology with murderous designs.

This film sucks, let's be honest it's flawed from top to bottom, but on a Saturday night added a few wines, it served as an entertaining kill fest. Cheesy and corny, it's not going to win any awards, but ninety minutes of humour and kills, it's worth a look.

I'll give credit for some of the kill scenes, very imaginative, a little Final Destination at times, some of the CGI however was dodgy to say the least.

Doctor Who The Flesh anyone?

It's a very bizarre mix, you imagine if this had been touted about fifteen years ago it would have been a slasher movie, one of them would have been the killer in plain sight, now of course in this day of AI obsession, it followed the recent trend for AI systems gone bad, the trouble is it's been done many times before, but better.

You can pick holes in the script all day long, you'll wonder why so many people have gone missing from that house, and no alarms have been raised.

Of all of the characters, I think Clay was perhaps the best of them, at least he was quite funny, Lexi was nauseating, Hannah was the most cliché ridden and obvious of the lot, it's a shame they were all so predictable.

6/10.

Not Terrible, but not great either. The concept is interesting and the production is pretty good, some of the effects weren't great but they were passable. The acting for the most part was decent.

This film feels like a dress rehearsal of the movie, it has all the right elements and you get the idea and feel for it but it's just not quite all there.

The kills, again, are respectable but it doesn't quite hit the spot.

It's not amateurish but it's not quite big league. There are a lot of horror movies that are bad, this isn't one of them but again, it's not great. It's not scary but it could've been, it has the all elements but misses the mark. Watch it but don't expect much from it.