I was hoping for a much better film, what I got was a rehashed derivative of every doll movie made, but this was even more cringey and absurd.
Allison Williams role as Gemma was flat and lifeless, I think she had two expressions, whiney and..., ah no sorry one. Apparently this young woman in her 20s she went from creating a fluffy little basic remote doll that looked like a troll and was run by an ipad, to a fully autonomous AI type doll that enacted murderous revenge, only took a couple of weeks in her garage. The premise was contrived and just done so badly. The back story of Gemma taking in her niece almost seemed pointless, Gemma was a crappy care giver, unable to deal with Cady, showed little to no social support, this attitude was never retracted during the film either. You definitely felt a cold indigence as a viewer, no connection to the characters. Gemma also talked like a teenager, slurred her words, or was even indecipherable at times, yet apparently was this amazing brilliant engineer, really terrible directing not to improve on some of her line deliveries, felt like I was at McDonalds ordering to a 13 year old mumbling. Her boss, Ronny Chieng went to a similar acting school, hidden at the back of walmart, just embarrassing, lame boring writing didn't help. I think the doll was very good, could have based that premise on a much better movie because the special effects were quite good, the story around it didn't support.
Allison Williams role as Gemma was flat and lifeless, I think she had two expressions, whiney and..., ah no sorry one. Apparently this young woman in her 20s she went from creating a fluffy little basic remote doll that looked like a troll and was run by an ipad, to a fully autonomous AI type doll that enacted murderous revenge, only took a couple of weeks in her garage. The premise was contrived and just done so badly. The back story of Gemma taking in her niece almost seemed pointless, Gemma was a crappy care giver, unable to deal with Cady, showed little to no social support, this attitude was never retracted during the film either. You definitely felt a cold indigence as a viewer, no connection to the characters. Gemma also talked like a teenager, slurred her words, or was even indecipherable at times, yet apparently was this amazing brilliant engineer, really terrible directing not to improve on some of her line deliveries, felt like I was at McDonalds ordering to a 13 year old mumbling. Her boss, Ronny Chieng went to a similar acting school, hidden at the back of walmart, just embarrassing, lame boring writing didn't help. I think the doll was very good, could have based that premise on a much better movie because the special effects were quite good, the story around it didn't support.