Subservience

When Maggie (Madeline Zima) becomes gravely ill and is hospitalised her husband Nick (Michele Morrone) struggles to look after their two kids and hold down his job. Humanoid assistance robots are increasingly widespread and when he visits the showroom, daughter Isla (Matilda Firth) picks out Alice (Megan Fox).

No good will come of this.

CW: Objectification of women

I did this to myself. Having stared at a computer all day I wanted some moving wallpaper and decided to put this trashy AI what-if thriller on knowing it would be bad but maybe diverting.

It is borderline offensive and I almost switched it off at the half hour mark and I say this as somebody who watched and appreciated the craft in Terrifier recently.

The Maidbot -> Sexbot -> Murderbot timeline was obvious from the title card and we've been there a million times before but this is so egregiously transparent I was flabbergasted.

The last thing I watched in this vein was Blumhouse's M3GAN which was a genre hit. This shares almost every plot element with it but the former was fun and had an amazing turn from Amie Donald and effects team that made the titular robot eerie and believably inhuman. Megan Fox just wears lots of pancake makeup, tight skimpy outfits and tilts her head a lot.

Absolute arsegravy 2/10, mostly for Madeline Zima's performance as Nick's frail wife, avoid like the plague.