A programmer at BlueBook, a big IT firm, Caleb wins a mysterious draw for a weekend at the CEO’s house. An enigmatic billionaire who lives in a huge high-tech house, Nathan makes Caleb a proposition to test his new and revolutionary female AI life form: Ava. Caleb immediately accepts, without questioning the limits or the implications of the experience…

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The big draw behind this movie is that Alex Garland, the amazing screenwriter of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, Sunshine and the acclaimed Never Let Me Go (as well as the ignored but entertaining Dredd), gets into the director’s chair to take charge of his imagination. He tests the limits between human and non-human, fascination and madness, adding pessimism with a dash of melancholy to this science-fiction/horror movie. Conceived as a closed piece articulated around opposites and reflections (flesh and metal, artificial and natural, man and woman), Ex Machina unfortunately doesn’t offer up enough depth, mystery or ideas on a subject that has meanwhile been done to death. The movie gets old really fast, despite a good cast led by Oscar Isaac, who is brilliant as the unhinged genius.