Just perfect...

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Low budget British science fiction about the creation of a female android (the machine) to be used in the war against China, or something. Surely nukes would be a lot easier!? I gave up trying to understand what this was all about by the half way stage and just took the rest in visually. There's plenty of violence & it's quite well done, but I'd rather watch any number of films than something "arty" or pretentious like this. Filmed mainly in one location, it's all rather dark looking & the low budget is apparent. For some reasons there are other androids/machines that speak in Farsi yet the film makers didn't think to add subtitles for those of us that don't speak that language. Overall this film provided plenty of action and some decent effects given the budget but I found it to be an over rated bore and was relieved when the end credits rolled.

A bargain bucket 'Ex Machina'. That is my review. I have to write more words.

I stumbled over this movie when casually browsing the Netflix catalog yesterday. The plot is fairly unoriginal one but it is one I would probably have liked it, if it would have been well implemented. Sadly it was not. It was not even a half arsed implementation. I am at loss to understand how this disappointing movie can hold a rating at 6.1 at IMDb at the time of me writing this.The movie is quite a low budget one. I can live with that. It is also quite dark. I can live with that as well. Unfortunately I found it to be a slow, boring, illogical and stupid mess. Of course it portrays the MoD as the stupid, arrogant and lying bad guys. No surprise there when it comes to most movie-making today. Been there, seen that. Wasn't fun the first time.The implementation of the plot is also just poor with lots of stupidity and plot holes. These potentially dangerous people seem to some times be locked up in cages and sometimes be roaming around pretty freely. The lost speech part is also laughable. The idea that a RD center should not discover that the subjects communicated between themselves is just stupid.As for the acting it is mediocre at best. Not really bad perhaps but certainly not very good either. It is really a low budget B-movie so this could perhaps have been swallowed but there is really not a single likable character in the entire movie. Almost everyone is an arse one way or another and the cyborg, who could have been interesting, is just… meh.The majority of the movie is one long, slow and dark ordeal. Once we finally get some action it is pure B-movie style shoot a lot and f- ck logic kind of action. The ending? The less said about it the better.For me this one was a waste of time.

I'm reading a lot of reviews on here on how great this movie was. Well I guess we don't have the same definition of "great" because I just thought it was an average movie. The idea of the story was not bad, even though we've all seen it before, but in general it was poorly executed. It didn't look very professional to me. The acting was just above average with no characters that will blow you away with their acting performances. What bothered me the most in this movie was the soundtrack. It didn't bring any suspense or punch, instead it was very monotone and made me want to fall asleep. A good movie needs a good soundtrack and in this case it was clearly one of the weakest points. For a sci-fi movie you would expect a bit of special effects to give it something special but even there you will be left disappointed. So in conclusion, the idea was not bad but we all seen better in the same genre.