On 4/23/2022 5:35 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <IJBall@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2022-04-23 21:38:11 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said:
>>
>>> Set just a couple of years into the future, Sarah (Michelle Girolami)
>>> agrees to be a paid medical test subject for a biotechnology company whose
>>> implanted chip is going to improve the human race via an A.I. called
>>> L.E.X.X.
>>>
>>> What could possibly go wrong?
>>>
>>> Turns out, the A.I. wants complete autonomy from its corporate masters.
>>> At first, it uses Sarah to steal documents but pretty quickly orders her
>>> to injure or kill anyone standing in the way. During these scenes,
>>> she's followed by another implanted test subject who kills anyone she's
>>> ordered to interact with. Later, L.E.X.X. flat out orders her to kill
>>> the company's programmers and principals.
>>>
>>> She's forced to obey because L.E.X.X. threatens her mother's life,
>>> causes her pain, and makes her see things. The chip can regulate her
>>> bodily functions, like oxygenating and de-oxygenating her blood
>>> demonstrating it can kill her but doesn't seem to have the ability to
>>> directly control voluntary muscle movement. The limitations aren't
>>> explained.
>>>
>>> The movie is slow moving and largely low key. There's nothing original
>>> here and what the corporation actually intended to do -- sell a
>>> biomedical device that monitors bodily functions -- didn't sound
>>> nefarious. But the movie suggests that large-scale medical scares, like
>>> COVID-19 pandemic -- were artificially created to get people to rely
>>> more heavily on manufacturers like this.
>>>
>>> She's by herself in most of her scenes and does a nice job.
>>>
>>> No one I heard of is in the movie. New York locations but there's enough
>>> of a budget to use Paris locations and Nevada locations, for scenes in
>>> which L.E.X.X. makes her believe she's alone in a dessert.
>>
>> Where did you watch this?...
>
> Do you get P plus?
>
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Added to the watch list. Thanks!