Review of Ex Machina (2015) by Adpirtle — 19 May 2015

This film dispenses with any notion of hard science fiction to focus on more philosophical questions about consciousness and humanity. Its biggest failing is that it quickly stops being interested in answering them so that it can present a much more straightforward fembot thriller.

I can't help thinking that the film would have been much more interesting if, instead of Ava, we had Michael Fassbender's David 8 appealing to the protagonist's morality rather than his sexual desires.