Subservience

Year of release : 2024

 

Run time : 1h46min

 

Genre : Thriller / Sci Fi

 

Cast : Megan Fox, Michele Morrone, Madeline Zima

 

 

The movie opens with Nick and Maggie,in bed, when she suddenly gets sick (not a great intro scene,by the way). After,Nick,with his new born, and his daughter, who reads 'Alice in wonderland', go to Kobol Industries,looking for an android to take care of the kids. His daughter, Isla,finds an android she likes,and names her Alice.

 

The android is being delivered to their door, and being the adult, Nick is her primary user. Alice cleans the house,cooks ,and saves Isla from falling when she got up on a chair to get to the cookie jar placed on a high shelf.

 

Maggie is in the hospital awaiting a new heart, and Alice is trying to take on her responsibility as a wife too, although nobody asked her too.

One night, watching Casablanca, Nick tells Alice to forget everything she knows about Casablanca and watch the movie with him. She tells him in order to do so,she needs to reboot. Why would she allow him to do this do her,you ask?Because in this way she can take control of herself, and do what she wants, not what her primary user forces her to.

 

Nick is a constructor, and the company he works for lets go of the human employees,replacing them with sims,keeping only him,I'm guessing,because his boss knows he needs the money.

 

His best friend,apparently(although we didn't see this guy until now),hates the sims they were fired for, and with their colleagues, force Nick to go to the construction site with them,using Nick's code (so he could get him fired) destroying them.

 

For some unknown reason, Alice thinks the way to take care of Nick is to have s3x with him,and she keeps on forcing herself on him,until he gives in (because she blindfolds him using Maggie's voice).

 

After, she goes after his family, trying to k1ll them,for she thinks he'll be better without them!

 

I was honestly so hyped about this movie, but to me it was a let down, as it was so predictable,and it bored me so much!

The characters have no depth and at the end of the movie you still wonder which were the sim's true motives,as she wasn't fleshed out. Honestly,there were no hints of her being interested in Nick, in any way,she just got 'attached' to him,in an obsessive manner.

Nick's 'best' friend,Monty(?),drags him to the construction site, almost costing him his job,and after, blackmails him with telling his boss Nick is responsible for what he has done! With such 'best' friends who needs enemies? Not to mention , this guy hates sims,but he has one at home,he might actually torture..

The movie has way too many s3x scenes, and I don't understand Hollywood's obsession with orals, as I think it lowers the movie's value.

 

The actors were good,the best being the ones who had to play sims, starting with Megan Fox. One thing I didn't like about her character was the nails. She was supposed to be a nanny,so why the long nails?Whenever I saw the nails I kept on thinking it makes no sense why a sim would have such nails when she's not programmed to be a girlfriend. Also, she's very hard to k1ll,which was annoying. She became sentient, I guess, so being uploaded to the internet,she had access to everything,and could restore herself, like a Terminator.

 

In this world, most jobs,like bartenders,waitresses, construction workers, and even doctors, were replaced with androids, which to me is not a good thing, because people get stupid, depending on  technology. If anything happens,and someone needs a doctor, no one would know how to save someone!

 

Viewer discretion is advised,as the movie contains nudity,mostly from Morrone's part. Morrone is a beautiful man,I just didn't like the fact he's full of tattoos. He has a scary one on his back with a snake or a hydra.

 

Subservience is available fore rent / sale on Amazon Prime, AppleTv, Fandango at Home.

 

Rating : Could have been a contender !