Life Like

I enjoy this movie but his girlfriend character got on my last nerves with the needy attitude and controlling ... if you can look beyond that than the movie is good.

With a little refinement this low-budget sexy sci-fi movie could have been seriously gripping and ultimately shocking. The central premise about interactions between humans and robots is intriguing and thought-provoking. It's offers some creepily sensual scenarios. The leads are good - especially Steven Strait as the robot, Henry. And it delivers some strong surprise twists toward the end. It's just a shame that the story is undermined by a sluggish start and a particularly annoying characterisation of the wife, Sofie, who is infuriatingly unlikeable. For the most part, however, it's quite well written - although the final plot twists needed more finessing. Still, worth a look.

This was quite an intriguing watch, all the way up to the last 10 minutes when the plot twist came. I don't want to say what it was, but I will say it is completely without logic and just made me think, 'are they having a laugh?' it was so ludicrous and makes the previous hour and 15 minutes seem like a waste of time.

Sophie is a complete and utter chore of a woman. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why this guy would tether himself to someone who is so immensely self-absorbed, vapid, boring and utterly aimless. All she ever does is criticize the very life she married into. Then she tries to change the lives of everybody else around her. Then she expects everyone to conform to whatever she thinks things need to be. This is a joyless and exceedingly irritating character and I only came here less than 20 minutes into the movie to say that. So we'll see if she manages to change my mind and if she does I'll be back here to edit, but for now we need to just off Sophie. I mean seriously he needs to let her go and just find somebody better.

Overall an original and striking film. There are certain scenes where the script is brilliant and it is a film that really makes some interesting points. Flow is good, though some bits seem stilted...like the business which we never really know what it does and never see more than a handful of people in. Despite this, the main actors are good and the twist is excellent and unexpected. I wish they had done the build up and reveal better, and not had much film after the twist was revealed as it would have had greater impact.

But anyway, worth the watch.