With his wife out sick, a struggling father brings home a lifelike AI, only to have his self-aware new help want everything her new family has to offer… Like the affection of her owner and she’ll kill to get it.
The movie has an interesting premise, situated in a near-term future where AI androids got so competent that they are pervasive and displaced pretty much all human work force.
While the world-building is interesting and primarily focus on the lives in a family, where the husband inadvertently caused his domestic robot to unbalance her goals towards making him “calmer” and “happier” over everything else, it also brings deeper elements for a reflexion on the effects in the work force and society once robots start replacing humans in work activities.
However, the premise for a blockbuster co…