Seriously, it's like ChatGBT had processed the script of Westworld, AI, Ex Machina, etc., and cobbled together this low-budget effort - certainly there doesn't seem to be any human involvement here. Anyway, a robot who looks like a cross between a skinny David Cameron and a Habitat model circa 1975 is given to a couple getting over the husband's infidelity. That's it for the plot, anyone reading this sentence will already guess what will happen.
One problem is, it happens so slowly. It seems to take ages before the robot goes Saturn 3 on the couple and in between we have to endlessly listen to their relationship issues. Maybe that's really what sent the robot crazy - I could only bear it because I knew they were going to be Terminated, God only knows what the robot must have felt being stuck with them 24/7. On top of this the stupid is dialled up to 11 throughout. Whether it's a brilliant engineer that doesn't understand that paired smart devices communicate with each other, plot twists that require someone finding a tiny bit of thread at the bottom of a waste disposal unit (though the jumper in question actually turns up later anyway?!) or a neighbour who A) Can't seem to understand why the wife is upset at her continually meeting up with her cheating husband; B) Somehow fails to understand that T. I. M's a robot; C Thinks driving a car into a house is a proportionate response to a rude manservent rather than phoning the police, it's complete cobblers.
Finally, in the conclusion the daftness goes off the charts. The super-intelligent robot buries the body conveniently inefficiently, the neighbour somehow impales him to a wall with a pole, and the robot resets his safe phrase/off switch (nobody thought of having it accessible online then?) to something I actually guessed, yet alone his unrequited love.
Anyway, I'll give it four stars because, while the acting was generally awful, the two human leads tried their best, and at least the robot's floppy Bullingdon Club hair provided a distraction. Aside from that, it offers nothing that hasn't been much better explored elsewhere.
One problem is, it happens so slowly. It seems to take ages before the robot goes Saturn 3 on the couple and in between we have to endlessly listen to their relationship issues. Maybe that's really what sent the robot crazy - I could only bear it because I knew they were going to be Terminated, God only knows what the robot must have felt being stuck with them 24/7. On top of this the stupid is dialled up to 11 throughout. Whether it's a brilliant engineer that doesn't understand that paired smart devices communicate with each other, plot twists that require someone finding a tiny bit of thread at the bottom of a waste disposal unit (though the jumper in question actually turns up later anyway?!) or a neighbour who A) Can't seem to understand why the wife is upset at her continually meeting up with her cheating husband; B) Somehow fails to understand that T. I. M's a robot; C Thinks driving a car into a house is a proportionate response to a rude manservent rather than phoning the police, it's complete cobblers.
Finally, in the conclusion the daftness goes off the charts. The super-intelligent robot buries the body conveniently inefficiently, the neighbour somehow impales him to a wall with a pole, and the robot resets his safe phrase/off switch (nobody thought of having it accessible online then?) to something I actually guessed, yet alone his unrequited love.
Anyway, I'll give it four stars because, while the acting was generally awful, the two human leads tried their best, and at least the robot's floppy Bullingdon Club hair provided a distraction. Aside from that, it offers nothing that hasn't been much better explored elsewhere.