Since his debut novel The Beach, Alex Garland has built a sterling career as a novelist and screenwriter. With the scripts for 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd on his CV, Garland's arguably among the very best sci-fi screenwriters working today. Ex Machina marks his debut as a director, and it promises to be an intelligent and thought-provoking film. Domhnall Gleeson stars as a young programmer who's summoned to the isolated alpine home of his reclusive boss (Oscar Isaac). The boss's home doubles as a top-secret research facility, where he's built Ava (Alicia Vikander), an artificially intelligent robot. The programmer's task: to figure out whether Ava's truly capable of genuine human emotion, or whether she's just another sophisticated computer program. Sample review (via Sky Movies):
"With its low-key but flawlessly slick visuals and intense, droning music to match, Ex Machina looks and sounds the business. But its thought-provoking themes will gnaw at your own humanity long after the shocking finale has bowed."
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