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For the most part, this film is a lot like a very Hollywoodized, and very unintelligent version of Ex Machina. Yet it sticks mostly to more regurgitated and standard Hollywood themes, in this way it's more like M3GAN. Not that there aren't a few interesting and somewhat unique moments in this film. There are. However they are pretty rare moments, and they're sandwiched in between a lot of ridiculousness. Worst of all, the film really suffers from a lack of tension or mystery. This, mainly because the whole film seems so obviously fake in nearly every regard. There are way too many badly executed and terribly written scenes in this film. The film is easily more laughable in how badly thought-out it is, rather than in any intentional comedic aspect. The film is a pretty drastic failure in terms of intelligence and/or entertainment.

2.5/10.

The concept of play is completely illogical. Why can the intelligence level and the initially determined program of love be overridden? How could the new program that Patrick restarted be directly changed back with a few sentences? What would the programmer do in that case? The level of iris's intelligence and emotional attachment should be two independent parameters, right? If the indicator of intelligence is replaced by rationality, this concept may be better played. It's very confusing, and the ethical issues surrounding the awakening of artificial intelligence's self-awareness are not clearly explained, using Sophie thatcher's feet to make money from foot fetishes under the banner of female awakening. Boring.

10 minutes into Companion and I knew I was going to hate it. The obvious product of the new Hollywood, take a bunch of mediocre actors, none who should be leading any film, throw in a contrived script, pretend it all has a message, direct it as if it's a comedy and at the very least throw in a decent soundtrack. This is not an instant classic like Ex Machina. This is just annoying nonsense. Imagine falling in love with your computerized car who also doubles as your silicone love doll, throw in cheap emotions, social commentary and a ridiculous crime caper. There is nothing here to recommend this.

Companion wants to be clever, edgy, and socially insightful, but it ends up feeling like a derivative Black Mirror knockoff stretched into a feature film that doesn't justify its own existence. The premise is mildly intriguing - something about emotional control and relationship dynamics dressed up in dystopian drag - but the execution is shallow, predictable, and oddly boring given how much blood and violence it throws around.

Sophie Thatcher does her best, but she's playing the same type of emotionally erratic, semi-feral character we've seen her do in Yellowjackets, Boogeyman, and Heretic. She's good, but the material doesn't challenge her. Jack Quaid, meanwhile, phones in his usual "awkward but lovable guy with a twist" performance. The second he shows up, you already know where this is going - and it's not somewhere interesting.

The first act hints at something smarter: a dark comedy about power and dependence. But once the twist arrives (midway, Olivia Wilde did essentially the same thing last year, and it's not nearly as clever as it thinks it is), the film loses all tension. It devolves into a series of disconnected scenes that feel more like short sketches than a coherent story. It never builds momentum. Instead of raising stakes, it just gets louder and more erratic.

Visually, it's well-shot and competently produced, which only makes the weak writing and flat character arcs more glaring. There's very little character development, and most of the dialogue feels like placeholder lines nobody bothered to revise. The relationship drama is melodramatic without emotional weight, and the social critique - if you squint hard enough to find one - lands with a dull thud.

The violence isn't shocking or funny, just... there. And by the third act, the movie has run out of ideas and is just throwing noise at the screen, hoping something will stick. Nothing does. Even the final scenes, which are clearly designed to provoke some "whoa" reaction, fall painfully flat. It's not that the ending is ambiguous or challenging, it's that by the time you get there, you've stopped caring.

Some people will call it "thought-provoking." But that usually just means it had a decent costume designer and a couple of slow-motion reaction shots. There's no substance here. Just style covering up an empty center.

Ultimately... just watch literally any Black Mirror episode instead.