What do you get when you mix Chucky and Terminator? Well you get M3GAN a highly intelligent ai that will protect its user no matter what.
Well first thing I wish to say is Happy New Year to those who are reading this. It's always fun and exciting to enter a new year of theater-going. A clean slate of the garbage films we have seen in the previous year and a chance to hopefully see and experience new worlds and exciting stories. Damn it if the Cinema isn't one of the most magical places on the face of this Earth. Because when the lights dim and the projector shines everything else just fades away.
Anyway, on with the review....
M3GAN I am happy to say was an enjoyable, entertaining way to open this new year with. Not a completely unique concept but very intriguing all the same.
Following the death of her parents Cady (Violet McGraw) is placed in custody of her aunt Gemma (Allison Williams) in an attempt to help her niece cope with the death of her parents she invents M3GAN or Model 3 Generative Android, I'll just stick to M3GAN its easier.
Allison Williams and Violet McGraw give good performances and the material they are given is very solid. Though the standout here is obviously M3GAN played by two different actresses Amie Donald and Jenna Davis they both performed fantastically as this artificially intelligent android. They were both very convincing in how they moved and talked both looking and sounding very robotic.
While the first two acts were really good, filled with good storytelling, writing, and acting what holds this film back for me is a rather, how can I put it, a third act that just didn't quite hit the mark. M3GAN's first two victims or maybe three, had a purpose she killed them because she viewed them as legitimate threat to the emotional and physical well being of her user Cady. But in the third act she started killing to well kill and that's just not intriguing to me, particularly the third act felt out of tune from the rest of the film.
Overall this was a solid film and one I did not expect to enjoy.
IMDb: 7/10 Letterboxd: 3/5
Watched in Theaters.
Well first thing I wish to say is Happy New Year to those who are reading this. It's always fun and exciting to enter a new year of theater-going. A clean slate of the garbage films we have seen in the previous year and a chance to hopefully see and experience new worlds and exciting stories. Damn it if the Cinema isn't one of the most magical places on the face of this Earth. Because when the lights dim and the projector shines everything else just fades away.
Anyway, on with the review....
M3GAN I am happy to say was an enjoyable, entertaining way to open this new year with. Not a completely unique concept but very intriguing all the same.
Following the death of her parents Cady (Violet McGraw) is placed in custody of her aunt Gemma (Allison Williams) in an attempt to help her niece cope with the death of her parents she invents M3GAN or Model 3 Generative Android, I'll just stick to M3GAN its easier.
Allison Williams and Violet McGraw give good performances and the material they are given is very solid. Though the standout here is obviously M3GAN played by two different actresses Amie Donald and Jenna Davis they both performed fantastically as this artificially intelligent android. They were both very convincing in how they moved and talked both looking and sounding very robotic.
While the first two acts were really good, filled with good storytelling, writing, and acting what holds this film back for me is a rather, how can I put it, a third act that just didn't quite hit the mark. M3GAN's first two victims or maybe three, had a purpose she killed them because she viewed them as legitimate threat to the emotional and physical well being of her user Cady. But in the third act she started killing to well kill and that's just not intriguing to me, particularly the third act felt out of tune from the rest of the film.
Overall this was a solid film and one I did not expect to enjoy.
IMDb: 7/10 Letterboxd: 3/5
Watched in Theaters.