10 Recent Movies That Tried Way Too Hard To Be Clever

At this point in pop culture, making a movie about Artificial Intelligence taking over feels almost redundant. While Blade Runner, Ex Machina and Terminator tackled the rise of the machines in their own way. Wally Pfister's directorial debut, Transcendence both was both dumb and too late.

What can be said about A.I taking over that Terminator hadn't already said? The concept of The Singularity had already been established in books twice as thick as the movie's sought-after screenplay, and the case was made much clearer too.

Transcendence came out in 2014; at this point the argument for computers getting smart had already been made, and yet there were no new or original ideas implemented into the film? The paranoia of A.I being too powerful was paper-thin at best and didn't present any coherent ideas for what the future of technology would look like.

If Transcendence were a person, it would be someone who thinks they're the smartest person in the room because they read a Wikipedia entry once. Making a movie about computer programs taking over mankind isn't a bad thing, but at least have an idea that doesn't rely on make-believe computer science and "what if the computer was controlling us?"