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Title: Uncanny
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
Starring: Mark Webber, Lucy Griffiths, David Clayton Rogers
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

What It Is: When reporter Joy Andrews (Griffiths) is invited into the mysterious workspace of David Kressen (Webber) and his assistant “Adam” (Clayton Rogers). Joy is not your typical reporter, though, no she has an understanding of robotics. In fact, she created a video game that won Game of the Year. She’s there, however, to act as a pupil for the Turing test Kressen is running. But what’s real and what she is perceiving may not necessarily be everything.

What We Think: There is so much about this movie that was done way better in the film Ex Machina. Literally right down to the very essence of the film this wants so badly to be Alex Garland’s directorial debut. It features wooden performances from Griffiths and Clayton Rogers. One for good reason the other not so much. Webber is good, as he normally is in whatever you put him in. Whether it’s a small role like that of Scott Pilgrim vs the World or Laggies or something like this where he gets center stage. There’s nothing truly original and most of it isn’t that great.

Our Grade: D, Featuring unoriginal everything there’s nothing here to really like and it doesn’t have great writing. Overall it’s just a really disappointing film. Not in the facet that I expected a lot just that the idea was not put forth with any kind of originality or substance. I can not in good conscience recommend this film. Go see Ex Machina instead. That film displays all of the best parts of sci-fi. Uncanny just seems fit to try and be that film, instead of focusing on its own version of the tale. In addition, the third act of this is awful, just awful.