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Ex Machina is written and directed by Alex Garland - screenwriter of 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd amongst other things - and this his his first time directing. It is also very excellent and you should all go and see it. Domnhall Gleeson (he of Frank and future Star Wars ubiquiosity) plays Caleb - a talented programmer that works for Blue Book (basically Google) who wins a competition to spend a week at the estate of the company's reclusive genius founder Nathan, played by Oscar Issac (he of being amazing in everything and also soon to be Star Wars). When he arrives Nathan reveals to him that he has secretly been constructing an artificial intelligence and wants Caleb to perform the Turing test on it - i.e. judge whether the AI has true independent thought and consciousness. Of course in the traditional Turing test you don't know whether you are talking to a person or a computer and the point is if you can't tell the difference then the machine passes. But Nathan explains that test is relatively trivial - he wants to go one further and show Caleb that the AI is machine and still see whether he thinks it has consciousness. The AI in question is Eva, played by Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina, The Fifth Estate) she is a brain in human cyborg form, with limbs etc. but clearly showing mechanical and electronic workings on display. Yet despite this appearance, she manages to build a connection with Caleb and begins to be convinced that maybe this is the greatest breakthrough in human scientific history. And then the film starts getting really interesting... This is a really terrific Sci-Fi thriller, with a tremendously taut script, three outstanding performances from the leads that is assuredly directed for a first timer. The style of the film is great, great colour choices in the cinematography and production design, it's interestingly edited in certain scenes, basically the whole film is a winner. If you are looking for an intelligent drama that relies not on explosions or gun battles for excitement then look no further and if you are a fan of science fiction at all then you owe it to yourself to check this out. If I see many films better than this in 2015 then I will be absolutely delighted. It was released today in the UK, according to IMDB it's out in the US in April, not sure for other territories. Trailer is here WATCH THIS MOVIE Edit: And I now see there is already a thread for this four pages back.  Never mind, please delete mods, thanks.
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