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i must have seen a different film!!

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

There is a plausible explanation for everything but let us not forget that in Sci-fi, one has to agree that this is true. You see in the world of science fiction, we crossover into another dimension which Rod Serling explains so well as a "world of sight and sound of things and ideas" but no longer in this zone but the another called Twilight. Here in this movie, we enter into the plot with full senses watching and reading the scenes and enjoying the movie as it unfolds. During this time, the viewers imagination is activated and captured. This movie makes you think and wonder and for me that's good sci-fi. The acting and story premises all handled well. Enjoy a nice snack with a tasty drink while watching. Make it through the end credits too as there is another scene wanting to add to your already viewing pleasures. If you want your head to hurt some, just read some of the theories and sharings by others online Uncanny? NO just decent sci-fi

Joy Andrews (Lucy Griffiths) is a reporter who is given the opportunity to spend 7 days with a robotics expert David Kressan (Mark Webber) and his creation Adam (David Clayton Rogers) whom is the most believable and realistic AI that has ever been created - he's an AI that David has lived in isolation with for the last 7 years. Things start to take a turn for the worse when Adam starts to exhibit abnormal and disturbing behaviour towards Joy when it seems that both the AI and its creator begin to develop feelings for the same woman...There are two words that sprung to mind when I was watching this film 'EX MACHINA' and it seems fairly obvious that ANDROID borrows quite heavily from this film. Both films cover the same theme of developing an AI that is capable of fooling humans and with an AI that is more self-aware than its creator imagines or believes.The problems with Android begin at a very early stage with the initial story set-up; the dialogue that is exchanged between the characters is mind-boggling and contains words that only scientists or members of MENSA are likely to be able to understand. I got the feeling that this was included at the start of the film to try and make it seem clever (which in retrospect becomes laughable when you learn of the simplistic plotting). The poor dialogue and lack of much happening in the first half makes for a fairly slow opener (although those for a penchant for Chess will be well catered for here).The second half is better if only because it has some life to it and has more going for it; there is a battle between the AI and its creator and the power struggle between the two is interesting, but whilst it is interesting it's never really a story that grips or involves (mainly because it offers nothing that we haven't seen before). It's difficult to critique performances in a film focusing on AI as naturally some performers are going to be 'cough cough' slightly robotic; this is the case for Webber and Rogers for the most part although Rogers fares best out of the two men (but in fairness this is because he is given more to work with). Griffiths is given the role of the most 'normal' person, but she works the role well giving a rather natural performance, but she's able to flex her acting chops later in the film.The end result of all this is a rather poor film with little in the way of originality or surprises and with its rather dull and dialogue-heavy first half it makes for an uneven film which sadly, for the most part, is fairly uninvolving. It's very similar to Ex Machina and even though I thought that film was overrated and had its fair share of problems I would still pick that film over this one.

Standing alongside the largely contemporaneous "Ex Machina", "Uncanny" (which confusingly appears on my DVD as "Almost Human") is Matthew Leutwyler's take on the Turing Test, in which - most likely - our ex-nerd reporter Joy (British actress Lucy Griffiths) fails so completely to distinguish between human nerd and robot nerd that she "goes all the way" with the latter.As a summary of "Uncanny" this is a bit crude, in every sense of the word, for this is a hugely nuanced film, doing a huge amount with subtle script and filming, in order to flesh out a fairly simple (and even potentially predictable) story set in absolutely-minimalist surroundings. Everything thus depends on the way the thing is done, and it must be said it is done brilliantly, generating huge tension - erotic, aggressive and otherwise - between the three main characters - the other very-persuasive stars here being Mark Webber as David and David Clayton Rogers as Adam.Considering that all three main players are essentially unknown to me, I must say they handle themselves superbly well here. And even if one knows roughly speaking where the film might be going, it is simply entrancing actually watching it go there.There is in fact a twist in the tale that leaves one wondering - again - what one might have been watching, but what the heck! Given that "Star Trek" and many other sources have touched upon similar content to what is present in "Uncanny", perhaps even developing it more fully, it is surprising how well "Uncanny" wins one over. But it certainly does, and basically that means this is just a great piece of art, founded upon the eternal triangle, but pushing that to - or even beyond - its limits.

Perhaps in a world without "Ex Machina," this subdued, claustrophobic, cautionary tale about the boundaries (moral, practical, etc.) of artificial intelligence and experiments with the meanings of life might have had more impact. Then again, the characters, whether human or ostensibly human, just aren't interesting enough to sustain the running time, mainly because the screenplay by Shabin Chandrasoma overloads them with exposition and stilted dialogue. The actors do their best to overcome this but are ultimately defeated by it. There are some good robotics on display and the antiseptic set design and cool, stylish cinematography do a good job of setting an appropriately chilly, slightly menacing tone. However, it seems like director Matthew Leutwyler studied hard at the J. J. Abrams Academy of Lens Flares -- a little less of that distraction might have helped make this story more compelling. The two concluding twists -- one of which most people will see coming a mile off, the other of which was a surprise to me at a point where I was beyond caring -- left me thinking that this is something of a latter-day "Twilight Zone" or "Outer Limits" story that would have been better as a one-hour television show. With a little more thought and substantially more drama, this might have made a decent episode of "Black Mirror." As a movie, it doesn't add much to any conversation.