Review of Ex Machina (2015) by Johnyukon — 17 May 2015

As I grew up I got more and more critic about media in general, including games and movies, this is my first movie review.

Characters:

Owner of a search engine company - CEO.

Search engine company employee - NERDY.

Robot with intelligence and emotions created by CEO - A.I.

Robot that takes care of the CEO house and is also sex slave - SEXY.

This is a movie that talks about the future where machines can be intelligent and have emotions and what/how this would affect human kind. If machines have emotions, are they human like us?

Truth is that having machines with emotions is stupid, we don`t need this, if we ever build a machine with emotions it should be only to say: "Oh we can do that, we can build a machine with emotions", but other than that it`s useless.

Emotions are a weakness of humans, but also a necessity, we need emotions to "drive us", emotions like love/sex, so we can have new babies and increase/maintain population. The sex necessity actually now can be replaced by genetic engineering, we can create better humans than ever, removing imperfections and adding improvements. Emotions have their bad side, like rage, and emotional problems, just remember the recent airplane crash in France where the copilot had emotional problems and crashed the plane, killing everybody.

So, having machines with emotions is in fact a bad idea, machines exist to help us, not replace us, they are mere slaves programmed to do what we want.

The movie shows that the company owner (CEO) had a sex slave robot (SEXY) that also help him by making food and taking care of his house, and shows this as bad. This is not bad at all, as I said, robots are our slaves, their purpose is to help us, and having a sex slave robot probably will happen in the future (we already have sex dolls). Now, if this slave robot has emotions things changes, she would be like a human and having a human as slave is not OK. The movie doesn't show her as having emotions or not.

The plot has some stupid stuff, like for example, the security system based on cards. Common, if CEO was a genius he would use biometrics, he could achieve a much better security by using iris, fingerprint, voice recognition, etc together and also keypads for even more security, so there`s no way someone could have access to his off limits areas by just stealing his keycard.

CEO programmed a robot (A.I.) that can kill. This is so dumb, if I ever would program a robot that is intelligent and has emotions I certainly would program it to not hurt anyone, especially me.

Why the hell the CEO needed someone else to test the A.I., he could have tested it by himself, he can reprogram the A.I. changing she knows about him, for example, saying he had no family, had no girlfriend, just like the NERDY he chose. Or just erase the A.I. memory about him. SO DUMB.

The guy chosen to test the robot (NERDY) is stupid, as I said above, machines are tools, he got emotional with a machine. NERDY is a programmer and should know how stupid this is.

And again, the human emotions messed everything as in the end NERDY freed the A.I. that killed him.

I didn't like the movie end, only the NERDY should have died because of his stupidity. The CEO should have stayed alive, controlled the situation by imprisoning the robot, showed the world he made an intelligent robot with emotions, win a Nobel Prize, and had build a emotionless sex slaves factory so everybody could have his/her sex slaves :).

Movie is boring too :D.

Movie doesn't add anything new that we hadn't seem before, the topic of robots with emotions exist for a long time.

Use of special effects - special effects just don`t work for me, as game graphics don`t work for me too, it doesn't fix a bad movie/game.