Maid Droid Origins

The 4 stars are for the 10 star ladies, the rest of the movie is not so good. There is some partial nudity, but no sex scenes. There is a cat fight though at one point, and it was hilarious, but I suppose all cat fights are.

The story is about an android woman and her creator and his wife. The plot does move along and it is cohesive at least, it's more of a relationship drama.

There are basically no special effect. It all happens in 2 rooms in his house, and some weird place where the android woman goes talk to her android goddess or something. So we are talking super low budget.

The acting is digestible I suppose, no overacting which might have made this more comedic, instead they try their best with what they are given.

The one good note I want to leave is for the sound department (Alexander Givens-Baran), specially during the turntable scene, it was so good it didn't even seem like it was from this movie. And to Katie Kay (Eve), playing an android is not easy, specially without special effects.

As for the rest of the movie...

The plot was confusing and bad put together, a lot of scenes also didn't seem to add anything to the story or to the characters. I really don't get what was the idea Rich Mallery had for this. The dialogs were also unnatural while trying to give them some deeper meaning or some reflection but ended up just sounding weird.

They could also have putted more work in the editing, the sliding transitions look strange, but that could be a budget limitation.

This is another lower budget independent film which really did not need a sequel. It is very much just a sequel in name, as there are connections to the original. The original film wasn't great but it had a decent enough concept and a compelling performance by the lead Android. Now this follow up feels just as lower budget, maybe a little better but the story is not as intriguing and more confusing. The Android woman in this film isn't as good as the one served in the original but she's decent enough.

For the most part, everything is relatively bland and moves at a slow pace. There is somewhat of an unexpected twist near the end which makes things a little more interesting. It elevates the film slightly but overall it's not that great. The acting is also very amateurish and not convincing, both by the lead man and his wife.

Having not seen the original, I did not know what to expect with this sequel. However, boy, was I surprised! First off, Katie Kay is an enchanting beauty who is totally believable as Eve, the prototype android maid (with benefits). Katie's heartfelt portrayal is really quite impressive!! It's not easy to convey the reserved emotions of a non-human entity, yet sometimes display more sensitivity than the human characters you play opposite. The rest of the cast offers very compelling performances with a wide range of intensity and intrigue. The dynamics of the married couple are already on thin ice, so wait until the droid Eve is added into the picture for fireworks to really explode! Kudos to writer/director Rich Mallery for putting together this timely, thought-provoking, and thoroughly fun and sexy movie. I really enjoyed it!

Well, I did find the 2023 movie "Maid Droid" as a rather abysmal movie, so I wasn't really harboring much of any grand expectations to this 2024 movie titled "Maid Droid Origins". So why watch it you might ask? Well, simply and solely because it was a movie that I hadn't already seen. And thus, I gave the movie a chance.

And let's just be honest here, "Maid Droid Origins" was as brutally pointless as the previous movie. In fact, this sequel was nothing more than an excuse for writer and director Rich Mallery, whom also wrote and directed the 2023 "Maid Droid" movie, to bring some fetishes to the screen, such as a woman dressed up in a caricature maid costume and some BDSM kinks. It hardly constituted proper entertainment. But hey, if you enjoyed the dumpster fire that was "Maid Droid", you will also enjoy this dumpster fire follow-up.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. Some of the acting performances were fair, while others were wooden and rigid. But then again, in all honesty, the actors and actresses didn't really have much of anything solid to work with in terms of script, contents of storyline, dialogue, character gallery, etc.

This is definitely not a movie that I found interesting or entertaining. And it is not something I would recommend you to sit down and watch, and thus waste 96 minutes of your life on. Some of us suffered through this, so you don't have to; you're very welcome.

My rating of writer and director Rich Mallery's 2024 movie "Maid Droid Origins" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.