Ex Machina movie reviews & Metacritic score: Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at. Chris Stuckmann reviews Ex Machina, starring Oscaar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander. Ex Machina leans heavier on ideas than effects, but it's still a visually polished piece of work -- and an uncommonly engaging sci-fi feature.
It's more thoughtful and less action-oriented than many movies and will. "Ex Machina" focuses on its human characters as much as its central robot Ava (Alicia Vikander), who seems to have more of a conscious than the actual people that surround her. Unlike other onscreen robots, Ava may have a lot to learn, but she is both intelligent and curious from the start. "Ex Machina" is itself a smart, sleek movie about men and the machines they make, but it's also about men and the women they dream up. While Nathan's charisma throws the triangulated drama off balance, "Ex Machina" belongs to Ava, whose depths of meaning enrich the movie and then engulf it.
Ex Machina: watch a clip of Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson in Alex Garland's sci-fi thriller - video. As for Garland, we should not be surprised that he approaches his directorial debut with such confidence and wit. After all, he has tackled these themes before in the living/dead juxtapositions of. Starring: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Evie Wray and others. And god, or God, is the word that hovers over Ex Machina, Alex Garland's pristinely creepy science-fiction film. Read the Empire Movie review of Ex Machina.
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Stylish, elegant, tense, cerebral, satirical and creepy. GarlandÂ’'s directorial debut is his best. Ex Machina is old-fashioned, grown-up science-fiction.
It is executed with the scrutiny we'd expect from a Kubrick or (more recently) a Nolan, but it has a darkly. Ex Machina, novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland's directorial debut, treads on the well-worn sci-fi territory of technophobia, god complexes, and lethal robots, but it does so with an intelligence and sophistication that never underestimates either the viewer or the capacity of the genre. Ex Machina has American characters and settings but a very European feel. As played by Oscar Issac, he seems more like a gonzo publisher than the traditional mad scientist in movies.