Review of I Am Mother (2019) by Ajzeg01 — 26 Sep 2019

This movie was awesome! This is a Netflix Original sci-fi film. It is in the “two or three people in an isolated environment with a robot and insidious stuff going on” subgenre of sci-fi. Other films in this subgenre include Ex Machina and Moon.

I loved those movies, and I loved this too! In the future, some kind of apocalyptic disaster has taken place and one robot named Mother is tasked with growing and raising humans to repopulate the planet.

The film follows Mother’s only child, Daughter, and her desire to know what lies beyond the walls of the facility she was born and raised in. It kind of sounds like a The Little Mermaid or Hotel Transylvania setup, but it gets really crazy from there.

This film is very moody and atmospheric. It’s cold, claustrophobic and tense, but also cozy, warm and inviting. It makes you feel so many different things. The story is very engaging. The performances are all great except for Daughter’s child actor at the very beginning, and the effects are excellent! The CGI and sets look great, but the best part of this movie is Mother.

She is not CGI. She is an animatronic suit. She’s awesome! She looks better than any of the robots out of the recent Star Wars movies! I’d say this movie is worth seeing for her alone, but the rest of the movie around her is so good that I think that would be doing the film a disservice.

Honestly, there’s not much I can say about this movie without giving things away so I think I’ll just leave things there.