Director: Drew Hancock
Starring: Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid
Running Time: 97 minutes
Synopsis: Iris (Sophie Thatcher) is the human-like robot lover of Josh (Jack Quaid). Together they attend a weekend at the remote lakeside home of their friends Sergey (Rupert Friend) and his girlfriend Kat (Megan Suri), with couple Patrick and Eli also in attendance. Josh tries to help Iris overcome her insecurities, but the weekend takes a dark turn when a crime is committed.
What Works Well: Writer and director Drew Hancock asks all the right questions about what it means to be human and the potential opportunities and complications of indistinguishable robots within our midst. The gnarliest dilemmas are revealed during an uncompromising second half, where wicked humour, bloody malevolence, overriding greed, and the essence of romance push the premise to disquieting but logical conclusions. In a delightfully quirky performance, Sophie Thatcher leaks only the most subtle hints about Iris' mechanical innards and software-driven emotions.
What Does Not Work As Well: Almost every problem posed is solved with a sudden demise, and the final act starts to play fast and loose with new rules changing the controls (or lack thereof) on Iris' behaviour.
Key Quote:
Iris: Most of the time it's like... I don't know. It's like there's this thick black cloud covering everything. Like we see the world, but we don't really see the world, you know. We're all just stumbling around directionless. No sense of meaning, no sense of purpose.
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