While on the surface it tries to be a piece of commentary on the objectification of women, it still manages to objectify nearly every woman in the movie. So points for trying, but the execution isn't there.
There are several unnecessarily drawn out softcore porn scenes, which I'm sure will appeal to people who get off to those. I felt it got tedious after a while. As the movie progresses, it's also revealed all those scenes are rape, which made them extra unappealing to me. But it shouldn't be an issue for anyone who enjoys seeing women being objectified and raped.
The acting is largely serviceable, but it's not good. A lot of it is wooden. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is also wooden, but still pretty well-cast because he's meant to be creepy and villainous, and he exudes both these qualities in spades throughout the runtime. I think the only downside is that since they cast the villain as the lead, nearly every scene has high creep factor. Every time the movie zoomed in on his expressions, which is constantly, it made my skin crawl. But I think he'll probably be less off-putting to people who don't have to fear a predator like him.
I also thought it was disappointing that the robots look and act like humans acting like robots.
The ending is contrived, as are some of the aspects throughout the movie. Why give robots a dreamscape at all, and then maintain the service, when it's clearly just an added vulnerability? How do you install a dead brain's memories into a machinal one? Why do the undercover robots flip off Jonathan's character when their long-term survival depends on keeping a low profile? Why does the movie act like high-end sex robots existing, which are probably only accessible to 1% of the population, is having a noticeable effect on marriage and birth rates? Even if half of all men own a sex robot, in what way would that keep human women from conceiving and raising a family? How can an undercover organisation succesfully be led by a robot who doesn't know what or who she is for potentially years at a time? How does Jonathan's character successfully hide a kidnapping and the murder of two people, so much so that he can order a perfect likeness to the woman he kidnapped and then made disappear, and no one bats an eye. She didn't have any relatives? He had to provide her murdered body so they could extract her memories somehow, and no one checked or noticed her cause of death?
Overall, I'd say this is a perfect movie if you like the genre and aren't bothered by the quality of the writing or acting.
There are several unnecessarily drawn out softcore porn scenes, which I'm sure will appeal to people who get off to those. I felt it got tedious after a while. As the movie progresses, it's also revealed all those scenes are rape, which made them extra unappealing to me. But it shouldn't be an issue for anyone who enjoys seeing women being objectified and raped.
The acting is largely serviceable, but it's not good. A lot of it is wooden. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is also wooden, but still pretty well-cast because he's meant to be creepy and villainous, and he exudes both these qualities in spades throughout the runtime. I think the only downside is that since they cast the villain as the lead, nearly every scene has high creep factor. Every time the movie zoomed in on his expressions, which is constantly, it made my skin crawl. But I think he'll probably be less off-putting to people who don't have to fear a predator like him.
I also thought it was disappointing that the robots look and act like humans acting like robots.
The ending is contrived, as are some of the aspects throughout the movie. Why give robots a dreamscape at all, and then maintain the service, when it's clearly just an added vulnerability? How do you install a dead brain's memories into a machinal one? Why do the undercover robots flip off Jonathan's character when their long-term survival depends on keeping a low profile? Why does the movie act like high-end sex robots existing, which are probably only accessible to 1% of the population, is having a noticeable effect on marriage and birth rates? Even if half of all men own a sex robot, in what way would that keep human women from conceiving and raising a family? How can an undercover organisation succesfully be led by a robot who doesn't know what or who she is for potentially years at a time? How does Jonathan's character successfully hide a kidnapping and the murder of two people, so much so that he can order a perfect likeness to the woman he kidnapped and then made disappear, and no one bats an eye. She didn't have any relatives? He had to provide her murdered body so they could extract her memories somehow, and no one checked or noticed her cause of death?
Overall, I'd say this is a perfect movie if you like the genre and aren't bothered by the quality of the writing or acting.