Ex Machina Review

Ex Machina is based around a programmer wins a competition to spend a week with Nathan the owner of the company, the programmer turns up and realises this is a weird house but it is a research facility and he is here to test the first Human A.I.

Cast

Caleb is played by Domhnall Gleeson who is an Irish actor and writer and has ab lot of experience in being an actor as he has been in films like Star Wars the force awakens and is in revenant. In believe that he does a great job at being the character of Caleb in Ex Machina as he shows the emotion that he has for Ava and how it changes through the week and the way he shows the bond that he believes that he has done.

Nathan is played by Oscar Isaac and I believe that he does a very good job in the way that he comes across as a bit weird and Ava convinces Caleb that Nathan is the bad one and she should trust her over him and the way that Nathan comes over calm when he finds out he was going to get Ava out he just says that it means Ava passed so he is so relaxed about the situation and comes across as a relaxed person.

Alicia Vikander is the most important actor and plays the part very well making the way that she moves to be very realistic with a few signs to make you feel like she is not human. Also if you look at her she is well known for acting in “the Danish Girl” and she won an Oscar in that film for best performance by an actress in a supporting role.

Director/writer

It was directed and written by Alex Garland I believe that this film was well directed well by Garland as he kept the film flowing and made shore that the audience didn’t get bored and lose attention also because he only made the film small it does not go on too long so it is not dragged out. Heis also well known for the film “28 days later”.

Producers

It was produced by DNA films and Film 4 productions so this allowed the film to have too sets of contacts for equipment and stages to use. The production companies have done very well considering that this is a low budget film there is no sign that it is a low budget film as the graphics and acting looks amazing and you could easily not now that it is a low budget film.

Production- incl sound effects and vfx

Most of the inside shots of the film was filmed inside pine wood studios in the uk so this allowed them to get the inside scenes set up just how they wanted it to show that it was a research facility and not just a home. All the footage was shot with a Sony f65 and for hand work shots a Sony f55 and was all recorded to 4k, this offered a grate picture on the finished film. Ava was filmed using a suit that picked up all her body on the camera and then it could be changed in to the robot outer shell. Also, there were no green screen was used so this allowed them to keep the scene in the background very realistic. Pixar render Man was used to render the robot body on to Ava

Ethical and moral questions

The way that Nathan treats the robots that he has made is morally wrong for example he has programed one to make love too and some people could see this as playing god and taking charge as if the robots do have intelligence then they should have free writes and not be controlled. Also some people could see it as playing god there for making him be taking advantage of something with feelings if proved they have feelings

Your critical perspective good/bad

I Believe the film was very good and you would not think that this was a small budget film. Also I like the way that they have re-created the look of the A.I. and have not made it look like a normal robot but instead they have made the Ava look like a robot in a different way instead of the standard robot look we expect to see.