Afraid

About as mid as it gets

Saw it before release, they didn’t change anything and I thought they might. It wasn’t good

4.9 - Exactly what I thought: grown up DCOM Smart House. I guess this exceeded expectations, but that’s almost disappointing.

Cho & Waterston both deliver performances that kept this afloat. They were both strong, as they usually are. The premise was as bad as expected. It presented almost no new ideas, or even twists on the common AI concerns. But the leaps it takes from one idea to the next come at such a breakneck pace & are almost so completely unrealistic that it toes the line of hard to follow. Then it’s capped off with an absurd enough climax & twist reveal that any bit of tension that was earned through the first 75% was killed for me.
I would have preferred it leaned so far into the absurd for the entire run time, or risked enough to present something new, even if it was dumb, that it could have been fun. Instead this sits squarely in meh territory, & I will likely never give it another pass. We collectively need to start holding Blumhouse accountable for the inconsistency.

honestly thought it'd be a lot better, and ik the narrative of movies for certain stuff never dying or the mc/humans never truly winning or ending it but it was all pretty guessable the ending was so predictable

7/10

About as mid as it gets