![]() This is not some "gray box" software that Caleb must determine is self aware, but instead a fully functioning There for a mere vacation, but has instead been selected to administer a so-called Turing Test on a new prototype artificial intelligence programīateman has been working on. That sets up an intellectual cage match of sorts, for when Caleb gets to the house, he finds that he's not As Ex Machina opens, a Blue Book employee namedĬaleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) is gobsmacked to find out he's won an in house lottery which offers a first prize of going to Bateman's homeĪnd staying with him for a week. Isolated high tech manse out in the wild which is accessible only by helicopter. Throw a soupçon of Howard Hughes into this character's psychological makeup, for Bateman has largely withdrawn from the world to an When he was still a teen, a search engine which in this film's universe has come to handle well over 90% of internet snark hunts (take Bateman is described as a "Mozart" of coding, having invented a search engine called Blue Book Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and/or Bill Gates. There's no deus in Ex Machina, unless you count the seemingly semi-divine intelligence of Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), aĬharacter who might be thought of as something of a cross between internet and computing entrepreneurs like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark ![]() Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, July 8, 2015
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