Review of The Machine

I agree with a review here that something has gone amiss with the IMDb review scores. This title should not have ended up 6.1 (currently, October 9, 2014). Usually 6.1 means palatable, easy to watch, might reasonably entertain you. This does not. What good acting might have been enjoyed has been cut to pieces in post production which rendered a potentially entertaining story in rushed unrelated sequences that quite simply annoy. In scifi we suspend our disbelieves maybe even more than in any other genre, but the AI/tech depiction is–apart from a somewhat credible reference to the Turing test–so blatantly stupid and crude it fails the story completely. Just one example: the scientists are clever enough to repair human brains into functional AIs, but are too stupid to figure out how these humanoids are communicating?! The plot and characters are far too predictable to be entertaining. On top of that the acting is rather more annoying than emphatic–especially in the case of the protagonists Ava and Vincent. And could the screen writer who made up evil guy Thomson please start acknowledging that his audience might actually have a brain? The bad character should be interesting, multidimensional. Instead Thomson is flatter than a steamrollered pancake. "Blade runner for a new generation"? Please, at this rate Blade Runner will do fine to convince new generations to come.