Uncanny
(2015/Image DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Film: D
A
low budget A.I. thriller, Matthew Leutwyler's Uncanny (2015)
is green-tinted low budget movie (seriously, who color corrected this
thing? Anyone know? Anyone did it?) with unknown actors (with the
exception of an appearance by Rainn Wilson) and some of the same
ideas that have been explored in stronger films of the genre; namely
the recent Ex Machina, Blade Runner and even Spielberg's A.I.:
Artificial Intelligence.
For
ten years, Inventor David Kressen has lived in seclusion with his
inventions, including an A.I. named Adam who is very lifelike. When
reporter Joy Andrews is given access to the facility, she becomes
enthralled with the Scientist and Adam. Soon the A.I. begins to omit
angry behavior and jealously towards her and she ends up in a fight
for her life.
Presented
in standard definition with an anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio of
2.35:1 and a lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 track, the film looks and sounds
fine on DVD with the exception of lousy color correction. The only
extras are Deleted Scenes.
Bottom
line is that this is a dialogue heavy low budget thriller that should
have had a bigger budget and better actors to pull off its ambitious
screenplay.
-
James Harland Lockhart V
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