Too many fans seem to be blown away

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Scenario is not bad but acting, the music and sound effects, and the unrelated emotional scenes are terrible.

It was different, and obviously not everyone would love it. but if you love a.i. probably you should give it a try.

you either love it or you hate it, it seems. Half of the reviews put it up there with the likes of blade runners, while others call it, I quote, "the worst sci-fi movie ever". To be honest when I saw this movie got only 6 out of 10 stars I was a bit surprised. It captivated me all the way through to the end, if only the plot was a little slow moving and could have done with some of the scenes chopping out. However, it has a very "ghost in the shell" feel to it, especially the parts where the robot is being assembled and "born". The weak side of this movie is that the two of the three main characters are just so bland. The evil MOD guy gave more the impression of a smarmy over confident middle manager than a ruthless sadist, which is essentially what he was supposed to be, and the main character, the scientist, went through the whole movie portraying the full gamut of emotions from passive indifference to stoic indifference. The acting of the robot / Eva character was good enough. The music, special effects and setting were all perfectly adequate, some reviews complained about them, but I thought they were perfectly acceptable. The only thing I didn't like was the armour piercing bullets bouncing off of what was essentially a rubber surface layer without leaving any marks. They should have at least messed up the appearance of the robot, but been able to regenerate over time or something.I can't say this is a terrible sci-fi movie because it explores some interesting concepts in AI and projects a fascinating potential future world scenario as well, and I bothered to watch it all the way through. If only the actors had put more into their roles, and a few extra scenes had established character bonds, such as between the father and daughter, and also between the scientist and the robot life he created, the story arc and finale would have been so much better.For that reason alone, this movie gets a 7/10 instead of 9/10.

Even though there are some flaws with this movie, there are several moments of greatness, and it's overall good.This is made on a pretty low budget, under a million £'s. And that's not bad, because this movie looks very good. In stead of suffering from the low budget, it's more like, had it had a bigger budget, they could probably have done a lot more. What we actually get looks real good. Everything from the sets to the makeup to the effects looks nice.Caity Lotz does a pretty good job. There was one scene with her that I thought the acting was a bit iffy, but that was soon forgotten. Might even just have been me. She also has a couple of real good scenes.There's a lot of cool stuff in The Machine. I ain't no science expert, but most of the science seems relatively legit. Movie raises some interesting questions about AI and what it means to live, too. And, you know, I love Terminator 2 to death, so I guess I'm a sucker for this artificial intelligence + emotions-thing.The Machine can be compared to Ex Machina in a lot of ways, but they are also very different movies. The budget being one of the large differences, btw. Low budget sci-fi often tends to get boring, but The Machine did not bore me at all. Well played, Machine!