The Artifice Girl

Just, WOW.

This was a very timely script/story based on what’s going on in AI advancement these days and explores ethical boundaries, and case-uses of this technology. Cherry (played by Tatum Matthews), Amos (played by David Girard) and the older Gareth (played by Lance Henriksen) gave some outstanding performances. The character Cherry was eerie, and hauntingly believable as the AI. My main dissatisfaction with the production was the setting / location, it looked as though the entire film was shot in someone’s basement, and many scenes were just too dark. The entire first scene in one location lasted what seemed an hour or more, perhaps intentional to make the viewer feel uncomfortable?

This movie is literally just them talking. Talking to each other. Talking to the AI. Talking in three sections of time that are marked and will let you know that they are now in a different point of time. You meet the characters. Next section you see what they’ve been up to. Last section they are old and you see what the AI has accomplished and become. Don’t expect anything crazy. Worth a rent I guess, but honestly watch it on YouTube or TikTok or something.

Skip it. Wow, that was over rated in a big way.

Trailer completely misleading. Not the thriller it’s made out to be…at all.

Ugh. Where is Rotten Tomatoes finding 90% critics loving this drag of an aimless film? It seems to have been written by an 8th grade drama class. Someone was trying really hard to sound profound…but instead just produced an aimless, pointless exchange that skips right over far more relevant AI questions. The big reveal at the end was…what? -That AI just wants to be adked if its happy? That was man’s big sin? Surely this could have been interesting. But alas…it was stale as the pizza in a school cafeteria.

I understand it's an indie, but why does it "look" like an indie? It's like the image quality is a bad instagram/iphone filter or something.

Not very interesting or fun to watch. Just people talking with no action.

I’ve been an avid Science Fiction fan since I read Ray Bradbury’s “Chronicles of Mar’s”, in the 5th grade in 1958, and then moving onto Issac Asimov’s IRobot stories. The 3-Laws of robotics has always interested me, especially since I’ve been seeing android/robot movies where the 3-Laws don’t seem to exist. This movie has no action, but it delves into just how much can an AI evolve? How much of the evolution should be allowed by their maker’s. And, most of all, can an AI evolve enough to develop a conscious to understand “consent”? Should the AI be allowed that particular human freedom?

A small, intimate indie that asks big questions about the future of AI and finds exciting, thought-provoking, and human results. Imagine Shane Carruth making a hybrid of Ex Machina and The Social Network with the narrative structure of Steve Jobs, and you’re in the ballpark. It was rad to see Lance Henriksen play the human side opposite an android, and he’s as great as you’d expect in a small but crucial role. Tatum Matthews and Franklin Ritch are both about to blow up though, and their performances are excellent. Ritch displays confident and slick filmmaking skills, and dials in a stunning debut. I can’t wait to see what he does next. I haven’t been this ecstatic or blown away by a small scifi movie like this since maybe The Vast Of Night, and the fast-paced, dialogue-driven quality and assured direction made me think of it.