Review of Jexi (2019) by Delodien — 08 Feb 2020

TL;DR - 8/10 - A very funny comedy, one where you don't have to think too much and can easily just chill and laugh and take in frankly a good story too.

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I had never heard of this film before I saw a random advert for it so I had no preconceptions going into it, I didn't even realise it was a rom-com before starting it.

Jexi is by no means "high brow" comedy, you won't get any intelligent jokes but this in no way means this is a bad film, in fact I enjoyed pretty much every minute of it.

The "romance" part of the film was fairly cliche, boy meets attractive girl, boy lacks confidence, sequence of events starts the relationship...the difference is that the sequence of events is a borderline psychotic phone AI that "wants to make your life better".

Jexi being the titular character really makes this film (and honestly that's kind of the point...) an AI that takes control of your life in an effort to make it better, with the digital world being so connected now, it makes sense that Jexi would have access to your bank accounts, email accounts etc. and can do whatever it wants should it wanted to.

The interactions between Jexi and Phil (Jexi's owner) are frankly brilliant, as I mentioned before, don't expect jokes that will make you think to get to the punchline, honestly about 75% of the humour is basically Jexi abusing Phil, and if that's your thing then it's hilarious. I can understand why some people don't have this type of sense of humour but the ratings it's received I feel are quite harsh on this front.

As cliche as the story is, it's a very good and modern take on your typical rom-com, and as a side effect does make you think somewhat about how much you use your own devices on a daily basis.