🍿 Ex Machina (2015) - ★★★★☆

I’m guessing this enjoyable sci-fi thriller was intended as a warning against the perils of AI becoming evil and turning against humanity. The humanity in this case, is a narcissistic, megalomaniac, alcoholic social media billionaire recluse and modern day Dr Frankenstein, so I was rooting for the beautiful female robot long before the end. That “she” could plot her escape by out-manipulating and out-murdering “her” creator means “she” passed the Turing Test for being indistinguishable from a human. “She” also left for dead the amiable and sympathetic protagonist she played for a love fool and stole his helicopter ride out of the insane asylum/laboratory/abattoir back to normality and observing humans at traffic intersections (where the poor lovesick fool had agreed to go on a date with “her”).

I couldn’t help feeling that if “she” had really achieved humanness “she” would, at least, have saved her wannabe boyfriend, and they could have lived happily ever after, but maybe that was the whole point?