As others have said, if you've seen 'Ex Machina', or 'AI', or especially 'Her', you've pretty much seen this already. The two leads are good, Ewan McGregor particularly, but there's very little new to see here, and there's some rather fantastical plotholes and implausibilities too. With a few more details there are ways the ending could actually have made sense, and it would have been a better story for it. But we don't get them, so it doesn't, and it's not.
I have to say, I'm finding something a little troubling about this recent push to sob over the proposed internal love lives of hypothetical future machines, at the same point in history we are most alienated from and distrustful of the countless real-life lonely human beings we are all living alongside. I understand the subject seems like a rich new vein for writers to tap into, but taking the side of artificial machines over the human race seems to speak of a terrible god-shaped hole in 21st century humanity more than any great leap of artistic empathy.
I have to say, I'm finding something a little troubling about this recent push to sob over the proposed internal love lives of hypothetical future machines, at the same point in history we are most alienated from and distrustful of the countless real-life lonely human beings we are all living alongside. I understand the subject seems like a rich new vein for writers to tap into, but taking the side of artificial machines over the human race seems to speak of a terrible god-shaped hole in 21st century humanity more than any great leap of artistic empathy.