This is the latest of many female-sex-robot-gone-wrong movies and shows that've come out in the last few years.¹ This one differs mostly in that it's more fashionable. A lot of the choices are smart and ever so slighting ahead of trends, being from the creators of Barbarian (a much better movie I'd recommend).

The first two acts delivered on what the trailer promised - a tongue-in-cheek and hip AI thriller. However, the movie starts by narrating what happens at the end of the movie and, in doing so, destroyed the third act by making it predictable.

My wife says the narrating-the-ending-at-the-beginning thing is a cheap trick to make a story symmetrical and seem cohesive. Given how poor the movie's ending felt, I'd guess the narration was added in post-production to add suspense to the airy first and second acts. The movie felt kind of vacant and rushed in total which imho could've been fixed with a decent sub-plot (but was probably too challenging to add given the story took place in a single location with a small cast).

Complaints aside, I enjoyed the few tech and robot-meets-human choices a lot. The cast was fun; the offspring of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan make for a great goober and Sophie Thatcher is a great robot alt-girl with her alt-voice.

I give it three meat morsels on the k00bimeater.