
User 1 Review:
I think the reviews of this film are telling as to the intellectual capacity of its audience. It is another far-reaching film that obviously soars over the heads of many casual viewers. The fact the most critics think this is just another sermon against artificial intelligence and that the ending is just another mundane victory of man over machine goes to show how ignorant they are. If you got caught up in that version of the narrative, I suggest you watch it again and pay attention to the subtlety. The film tackled an exceptional task of withholding any concrete indication of the humanity or lack thereof of its transcendent AI until the very end, which allowed for the exploration of important themes about fear, sacrifice, autonomy and love within the context of a truly transcendent level of possibility and consciousness. If it felt robotic at times, I feel this was necessary to maintain the shroud until the final reveal. Perhaps this could have been executed with a little more nuance, but given the scope of its objective I found the film to be a great success.
User 2 Review:
It could have been done way better visually, but what it lacks everywhere else, it makes up for in the philosophical aspect. I kept joking along the way that these people clearly never watched Terminator, and expected that I would know exactly how it ended - a delusional AI overcome by the humans that created it. And it threw me a curve-ball that left me thinking alot for the rest of the evening. I actually enjoy movies with no clear-cut endings, no clear heroes or bad guys, and I therefor award it four stars out of five, omitting one because it -could- have been better.
User 3 Review:
Chrisopher Nolan's long time cinematographer Wally Pfister directs his first film and a very good looking one indeed. It explores some interesting futurists idea and themes even though they do seem very far-fetched and yet still didn't seem they got deep enough into the those themes. Still the very core of the story is a message of love and humanity.
Posted on: September 8th, 2014
Posted by: filmxy