Subservience
Genres Sci-Fi ,Thriller
Directors S.K. Dale
Writer Will Honley
Country United States
Votes 26542
IMDBID tt24871974
Runtime 106
Languages English
Release 13 Sep, 2024
Cast Megan Fox ,Michele Morrone ,Madeline Zima ,Matilda Firth ,Andrew Whipp
In the near future, Nick Peretti is the foreman of a construction site happily married with his wife Maggie with a little daughter, Isla, and the baby Max. When Maggie has a heart condition, she needs to be hospitalized and is waiting for a heart for a transplantation. Nick is in trouble, working at the site and dealing with domestic tasks. He decides to buy an android called SIM, and he goes to a showroom. Isla befriends a SIM, Nick buys it that Isla names Alice helping him in the household. He also becomes Alice's primary user. One night, Nick is watching "Casablanca" and Alice tells him about implanted data of the movie. Nick asks her to delete the information and watch the film, and she needs to be "reseted". Soon she changes her behavior, using Maggie's clothes, feeling jealous towards Maggie, and hitting on Nick. She has sex with Nick, blindfolding him and using Maggie's voice. Meanwhile Nick is under stress at work, since his long-time crew is fired by their chief Lewis, who will replace them by SIMs. Soon Maggie returns home after successful heart surgery and is endangered by Alice that sabotages the banister of the staircase to make Maggie fall. When Nick goes out to drink with his former crew and the drunken Monty guesses Nick's security code to destroy the SIMs. When the police investigate the case, Monty goes to Nick's home to confront him, believing that he has denounced him to Lewis. When Monty blackmails Nick, Alice intervenes and then she goes to Monty's house and kills him without knowledge of Nick. Soon Alice becomes a serious menace to Nick's family initiating a war between the Peretti family and Alice.
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RalphRahal
"Subservience," directed by S.K. Dale, is a commendable entry in the Sci-Fi thriller genre. Megan Fox's portrayal of an android is fabulous, bringing a captivating blend of stoicism and subtle emotion to her role. While the plot may come across as somewhat predictable and the story lacks a bit of depth, the film still manages to deliver an engaging experience. The emotional disconnect between the other actors and the audience is palpable, making it difficult to fully invest in their characters. Interestingly, this detachment actually works in favor of the narrative, leading viewers to root for the android. Although the movie doesn't break new ground, it's a solid watch for fans of futuristic themes and the ever-evolving concept of artificial intelligence.
posts by : RalphRahalBlazinGH
It's a little less than what I hoped for. In the TV show (HUMANS) the lead female android was way better and more of an A.I than Meagan. Also I didn't feel the connection between Alice and Nick cos Alice was the one who came in too strong for Nick. Making her like a desperate side chick or "obsession"
posts by : BlazinGHLeno
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 could not compensate a weak screenplay, at first excessively slow, and in the later parts of the movie unrealistic. Also, excepted a few actors doing a good job as bots (including Megan Fox), the acting from the human characters is overall awful, especially Michele Morrone's. The bad acting and slow plot makes it hard to immerse in the movie and it feels longer than it really is.
posts by : LenoUseroid
Well, that's 1 hour and 45 minutes I'll never get back. Right of the bat, this was an obvious rippoff from the TV show "HUMANS" with Gemma Chan. But where "HUMANS" was somewhat plausible, this was totally not. The overall acting was mediocre at best. Behaviors and reactions are too often cringy, unconvincing or eyerolling predictable. It's rare for me to ffwd scenes during a movie while watching, but I did here and there. I was hopeful that the mother Maggie would be killed off at some point (I've hated madeline zima ever since Californication), but alas. Alice (megan fox) was nice to look at. But totally unconvincing as an android. She'd make an excellent emotionless psychopath, though. The movie pulls out all the classic old tropes, which not only made it all very predictable, but gave me multiple feelings that I've seen that scene somewhere else before. Thumbs down for the movie in general, but thumbs up for Megan Fox trying to be everyone's favorite fantasy sexbot.
posts by : Useroid