Ex Machina: Massivelly overrated

Last time I wrote about a directorial debut, it was a great one (The Gift), sadly with Ex Machina it is a different story. Alex Garland gets pretty much everything wrong, with his weak plot, poor dialog, and despite the cast, even poor acting. Essentially the only thing he has going for him, is the VFX department, which lately seems to often be the deciding factor for a film's popularity.

One's face after watching Ex Machina

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Ex Machina addresses a very current issue, the great dilema of AI, but fails miserably at doing so. Already from the beginning, you get a taste of the absurdly forced dialog that will propagate through the entire movie, to an extent that is indescribable. I know it is a movie about artificial intelligence, but it would be nice if the actual human intelligence in the film wasn't so artificial itself. [...]