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I don't do this often, but Westworld requires a comment. I feel betrayed and tricked by this series of more or less utter nonsense. I watched the last episode yesterday and had to force myself to keep on watching. The problem is, that I stopped caring for any character after six or seven episodes. They are robots, right? So, what's the point? Who cares if they live or die or ponder their existence?

If this is supposed to be the spearhead of the HBO shows, I feel sorry for the makers and viewers of the program. And I had the strong feeling that even the writers of this show lost track of the story lines and characters. It became a weird mixture of flashbacks, reboots, questions and answers. Answers to what? That I couldn't figure out.

BTW, the same happened to me while watching "Ghost in the shell" lately. I just can't care for robots. They bore me. They are not human and will never be. You lose one? Build a new one. Case closed. Two stars for the decent acting and camera-work.

... the reality is much more weird than this movie.

Of course I had to do the research after watching the movie to read about the real case in Vanity Fair (the article can still be found on the internet). Fascinating stuff and much more complicated than the events that are described in this movie. Yes, the filmmakers did a good job converting this internet-drama for the screen, but I can only advice everyone to check out the facts. Much more thrilling than the fictional approach and much more unbelievable.

Still a movie to think about for a while.

Good actors and a good way to show internet-chats on the screen. I guess that was the hardest part in making this movie. And the choice they made in presenting these chats was well done.