Reporter Joy Andrews (Lucy Griffiths) does an in-depth week-long interview with tech scientist David Kressen (Mark Webber). He introduces her to Adam (David Clayton Rogers) and later reveals that Adam is actually an AI robot. His wealthy boss Castle (Rainn Wilson) monitors the situation from afar.

Coming out around the same time, this was being overshadowed by the indie hit Ex Machina. There is an obvious visual CGI wow factor about Ex Machina that this does not have. Leaving that aside, they are both traveling on similar and well-worn sci-fi lanes. The acting for both male leads is limited to the stiff robotic nerd persona or an actual robot. Griffiths has an easy presence. I'm always taken by her brilliant blue eyes. This is an extended Twilight Zone episode or Black Mirror for the modern audience. It's a perfectly capable film that stays compelling to the end.

Simon Castle (Rainn Wilson) is a billionaire who has created a lab in downtown LA for MIT grad David Kressen (Mark Webber). David has created an Artificial Intelligence (AI) named Adam (David Clayton Rogers). He has invited reporter Joy Andrews (Lucy Griffiths) to write a story on their work.

The film has the plot and feel of EX MACHINA with the gender role reversals. The twist I saw after an early chess game. This is a slow moving science fiction drama that offers nothing really new to the genre.

Guide: F-bomb. Brief sex and nudity.

This wasn't actually a bad movie, which is why I am giving it a 5, I'd even give it a 6 or 7 if I was able to finish the whole thing, but I had to stop it 10 minutes short because it became too intense and disturbing at the end for me to be able to sit through, and up until then it had been super slow and not very eventful. I love slow powerful movies, and I love intense movies and can handle some disturbing events for shock value. But this movie was definitely over the line of what was just a bit too slow, and too disturbing. And I actually sat through almost the entire thing because it wasn't doing anything artistically wrong or bad throughout the entire film. It seemed like it was going to end up being a good movie if I just sat through the whole thing and saw how it ended. Unfortunately at the very end i had to bail because something sick was happening that just came out of nowhere and it was very hard to watch. So maybe it is worth you watching but do so at your own risk.