It's a ripping good tale, but my god it starts too slow. The exposition is clumsy. It has a typical British TV series look and feel to it. However it's worth sticking with. Once the AI is achieved the film takes on it's own flavour and direction. From then on it captures the viewer. The problem up to that point, it looks and feels slow dark ponderous. There is an issue with the machines that don't speak. We hear them speaking all the time, in the presence of humans and it's not clear the humans don't know they don't don't speak. It seems the makers didn't really want to deal with exposing the setup and jumped through pieces that could have made for an engaging opening 20 mins. I stuck with it, because I had read some reviews, but paused it to give myself a rest. It's a good movie with a clumsy start. Great middle and not a bad end. It's certainly better than a lot of stuff out there these days.
Review of The Machine
