The visuals are exotic and make you wonder if it is set on a distant planet but no, it is set in a remote Japanese location but actually filmed in Hungary.
Through the most of the movie, set roughly 30 years into the future, we see Theo James as George Almore, after losing his wife in a horrific automobile accident, working alone on a project to produce a human-like robot. The various forms take on characteristics, and voice, of his wife who he still gets to talk to via an "archive" contraption. One robot get jealous, version #2, and almost sabotages the entire effort.
This is an interesting movie to watch for those of us who enjoy this theme, with certain similarities to "Ex Machina". We naturally wonder where all this will lead and the last 10 to 15 minutes flips everything on its side, giving a resolution that I didn't see coming. And to me it is a more interesting resolution.
I watched it on Amazon streaming movies, my wife skipped.
SPOILERS FOLLOW - As we watch the story unfold we take it for face value, however we eventually find out that his wife didn't die in the accident, George was the one who died and all we were seeing was his own final and fading dreams as his wife accesses him via the "archive."
Through the most of the movie, set roughly 30 years into the future, we see Theo James as George Almore, after losing his wife in a horrific automobile accident, working alone on a project to produce a human-like robot. The various forms take on characteristics, and voice, of his wife who he still gets to talk to via an "archive" contraption. One robot get jealous, version #2, and almost sabotages the entire effort.
This is an interesting movie to watch for those of us who enjoy this theme, with certain similarities to "Ex Machina". We naturally wonder where all this will lead and the last 10 to 15 minutes flips everything on its side, giving a resolution that I didn't see coming. And to me it is a more interesting resolution.
I watched it on Amazon streaming movies, my wife skipped.
SPOILERS FOLLOW - As we watch the story unfold we take it for face value, however we eventually find out that his wife didn't die in the accident, George was the one who died and all we were seeing was his own final and fading dreams as his wife accesses him via the "archive."