Nonetheless it is a fun ride, with excellent actors playing in these boxes the writers have etched for them to abide in.

This movie tries to cross over the line between fun and serious far too much. They attempt in the beginning to have the characters seem one dimensional - all except the robot, and include shots with suspense like the dark outside of the secluded cabin when all the friends are dancing together. Nonetheless it is a fun ride, with excellent actors playing in these boxes the writers have etched for them to abide in. You see glimpses of Sophia Thatcher's brilliance and robotic aura; both offputting and utterly mesmerizing. One must feel for Jack Quaid who so constantly plays the innocent buffoon, but he does a great job with the lines and impressions. The rest of the cast does a good job, but I felt the entire time as if something was missing.

Whether it was a truly shocking moment before the climax, or a broad statement about society amidst the sea of opportunity to do so (the movie is literally about people creating robots for their own pleasure), it, again, dances back and forth between serious and unserious. The plot twists are excellent in isolation, but collectively they make the story feel disjointed and outrageously unrealistic (yes, I see the hypocrisy of this statement amidst the story about AI robots - but we don't seem far off it in the real world).

All in all it felt kiddy and unserious, but fun and rambunctious. I would highly recommend it if you are bored and want something to throw on in the background or enjoy sporadic stories with jumbled but interesting plots. Not to be appreciated by the harshest of critics or those who enjoy the classics. Definitely an acquired taste and reminds me of Send Help stylistically, although the humor in the ladder made it far more entertaining. Maybe that's what it missed - a good laugh in a very serious plot that decided to be unserious yet gory.

If you haven't seen it and have been wanting to, go watch it. If you haven't heard of it and sci-fi doesn't intrigue you, don't. 7/10.