A man acquires an Artificially Intelligent android to cope with the loss of his recently deceased wife. In an attempt to create a truly sentient partner, he inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate.
A man acquires an Artificially Intelligent android to cope with the loss of his recently deceased wife. In an attempt to create a truly sentient partner, he inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate.
If you've seen Subservience, Companion, Megan, or any other movie about killer robots you have seen this. There wasn't really anything new or unique about it.
It had some entertaining moments, but generally was your standard killer robot movie.
The problem I have with these movies is that they try and make the message all about how bad these "AI Companions" or Robots/Androids are, and its always the Big Bad tech company that is seen as the villain. Which, fair.
But. Really, the blame should lie with the guy (its usually a guy) who decides that the companion doesn't fit his vision of an ideal girlfriend/human so he turns the safeguards off and/or tinkers with the code and then gets shocked when things go very badly wrong.
In most cases, and in the case of this movie too, if the guy had just left well enough alone, and left his Soulm8te in its default state, then its likely nothing terrible would have happened at all. Boring? sure. But the whole point was that he was Beta testing the Soulm8te. The problems he had with it not being "realistically human" may have been ironed out during the testing. He'll never know though because he thought he knew better and hacked the code.
Also, anyone that Soulm8te killed should probably be his responsibility as he was the one who turned off the safeties. He should probably be in jail.