Movie Review: Ex Machina


This was a highly unsual movie which takes place entirely within a research facility specializing in building robots and artificial intelligence.  Early on, there was something called the “Turing Test” where an employee of a Google like company was chosen to interview a robot to see if the robot could pass a test that prove that it thought like a human being, and was in fact “fully aware” with its programmed AI intelligence.

The movie had some interesting turns and surprises and the end was rather disappointing, but how to you really end a movie like this?  Could there be something in the future where a robot could have the intelligence and emotions of a human being?  Perhaps one day many hundreds of years from now.  Considering this important question a movie goer can not help but hope that there was a better point made somewhere during the two hours of this movie.

The female lead in this movie, Alicia Vikander was excellent and has a very beautiful face. Its very obvious that she has a great future in the movie business.

I recommend this movie.

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Movie Review: Avengers – Age of Ultron


This was a bad movie. It was bad because once again the producers of this movie knew that they had a guaranteed billion dollars of income for this movie and once again completely forgot about writing any kind of a decent story that either made sense or was even possible for anyone to watch. From one scene to the next you literally had no idea what was going on or why or how one scene connects to the previous scene. There is really no script here, just a series of reasons to create more computer generated action scenes that themselves barely made any sense.

A great example of a movie franchise that did it right was the recent Furious 7, which was a very well done action movie and even though the story was convoluted, at least it was enjoyable and made some sense.

This second Avengers movie will make over a billion dollars, but its still a very bad movie that should be avoided.

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