AIMEE: The Visitor

I liked the idea of this movie a lot as it ties into current fears the human population has about what role AI will really play in our lives. Will it try to take control over our decision-making? This movie features a protagonist who is a shut-in/hacker who spends all his time inside a dark workspace/home in arrested adolescence. Fair enough. When he downloads new software and discovers an AI assistant named Aimee, that's when the trouble starts. My main beef is that the lead actor lacked charisma and felt slimy to me. Supporting characters were better played. I appreciated the cool retro 1980's look to the lighting and set design. Run time is confusing, only 76 minutes? Felt like they could've added 6-7 more minutes to get to proper length. It is worth checking out.

OK, so I thought that perhaps this film would be reminiscent of some of those campy-technology based sci-fi films of the 80s & 90s, i.e., Johnny Mnemonic, Hackers, War Games, The Thirteenth Floor, to name a few. You know, those movies that were based on technology of the era that may have been decent movies at the time but are completely obsolete now and almost comical to watch.

This movie does not have to wait 30 years to be comical to watch. I could see this movie getting a B+ as a student film for a course at a Poughkeepsie, New York community college called "You can make movies too."

The only thing I liked about this movie was that the girl who played Gazelle was kind of cute. She had a rather Halston Sage kind a look. But unfortunately, her acting, although at times somewhat convincing, mostly missed the mark, as did the other actors' performances. I thought perhaps two of her 30 or so "What the f's?" were actually believable.

The scene where the two "FBI agents," (whose appearance in the film was completely irrelevant), were electrocuted, was reminiscent of Star Trek TOS 1966 special effects.

Ironically, the best actor in the cast was the artificial intelligence that played the character called AIMEE.

Here's the good news: if somebody forces you to watch this movie, it's only 69 minutes long!

I'm going to say this is one of the better recent movies to delve into this topic. The human characters stayed with me for awhile afterwards. You've got a shut-in Hacker, self-absorbed narcisist. That's our main character (flawed, which I like). He has two friends that he subcontracts to do his bidding. Then he loads and opens some trial software that brings a beautiful AI woman into his world (albeit she is only on his OLED display screen). Thus Aimee is born. Human lives become endangered as Aimee becomes more emotionally involved with the lead character. The acting, sets and premise are all good. Faith West is very good and should work more. I recommend this as something different than the Hollywood norm.

This movie has a unique story but it's a pretty good one of computer program gaining its own will and fainting love with its user.

This movie tied in some pretty good ideas that were rather cool of artificial intelligence getting out of control.

This is a low budget film and I don't think anyone who's into these types of movies expects some high end theatrical production.

The effects and visuals were quite good for a low budget film like this. While the film is short and the ending isn't so great it gets its point across.

There are moments in the film that seem like they could have been left out but there are a lot of good moments that make the movie enjoyable.

With no knowledge of this film or what it was about but seeing as it was the latest film by beloved acclaimed director Charles Band, and having viewed several of his films in recent years. Had some expectations of just solid entertainment.

Although the cover art looks relatively cheap, the overall quality of the film is watchable and not overly low budget. The special effects aren't terrible as the design of the AI character of AIMEE looks good, as do the background scenes.

The story is intriguing as while watching we are interested in where it is heading. Most of it is quite predictable but there is still some thrills and suspense to be had. Considering the subject matter, most would expect some skin to be shown. Although we don't see the character of AIMEE shed but there is an extended scene with the lead female Gazelle (Faith West- possibly a star in the making. Be on the lookout for her).

What makes this film worthwhile is the runtime being quite short as things move quite quickly. Although in the end, not everything seems to be answered such as who was behind the hacking of the AIMEE. Was expecting a reveal of sorts.

Perhaps these artificial intelligence sci-fi films will become more if a trend and they are highly entertaining. Overall decent film. Expect it to be more popular in the coming months.