Zoe

The slow pacing will turn off many, but the story and implications of the subject matter fascinated me so much that I watched it a second time, this time through the eyes of knowing what was going to happen.

This movie is absolutely worth watching, probably more than once. Excellent story. Excellent performances. Just a beautifully done film.

First review. Had to make an account to say this. The movie is really beautiful and raises a lot of questions I really had never thought about before. I went through a series of different emotions during this film and I thought it was really great. Performances were strong, the movie itself is beautifully shot... I might watch it again.

I kind of get that many here likes this, but on the other hand I don't. I didn't feel the romance between McGregor and Seydoux at all (in other Doremus' movies it has been the opposite). Also the scifi / AI aspect didn't offer anything we haven't seen in the past years and many of those other movies have done it with deeper results. Of course everyone has their own opinion, but I can't say with straight face that this one could compete with Ex Machina, Her, Westworld, Upgrade etc. on quality. Then there are the songs, ok couple of them hits the spot, but mr. Doremus has the habit to put waaaay too many on his films, and often they can even ruin the mood. Editing also hurt the eyes few times. All in all I think it's very average, I would rather watch Doremus' Equals, that made me feel at least something.

'Her' meets 'Blade Runner' in this overly-derivative tale of an inventor of AI 'synethetics' who falls in love with his own creation. The story touches on how we willingly humanise technology for our own human desires, and how tolerance and acceptance might be extended to non-human life forms - and how they, in their evolving emotional intelligence, might tolerate, accept and pity us. But is it love? These are all interesting questions, but ultimately remain under-developed in this movie which fails to fully mine the heady themes it sets up. The narrative seems too obsessed with tribute nods to Blade Runner - mechanical voiced surveys, synthetics as sex toys, memory implants - and less interested in pushing its characters and questions to extremes in order to surprise and disturb. As a result, it fails the plausibility test that such futuristic stories undergo. It isn't convincing. At no point did I think, 'Yes, this is what we could become.' And that is where the film differs from Her and Blade Runner. This is a familiar story of boy meets girl, gets girl, loses girl, tries to win her back. The sentimental music is overly-manipulative. It's a teary love story, with light sci-fi decorations in the frame. Beautifully shot, and has decent acting performances, but ultimately bland and disappointing.