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5.9/10 • 428

2024-08-281h 24m

HorrorScience FictionThriller

Be careful what you let in.

Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can – and will – make sure nothing – and no one – gets in her family's way.

Directors
Chris Weitz
Writters
Chris Weitz
Editors
Chris Weitz, Priscilla Nedd-Friendly

Top Billed Cast

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  1. John Cho

    John Cho

    Curtis

  2. Katherine Waterston

    Katherine Waterston

    Meredith

  3. Keith Carradine

    Keith Carradine

    Marcus

  4. Havana Rose Liu

    Havana Rose Liu

    Melody / AIA (voice)

  5. Lukita Maxwell

    Lukita Maxwell

    Iris

  6. Ashley Romans

    Ashley Romans

    Sam

  7. David Dastmalchian

    David Dastmalchian

    Lightning

  8. Wyatt Lindner

    Wyatt Lindner

    Preston

  9. Isaac Bae

    Isaac Bae

    Cal

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CinemaSerf

Aug 31, 2024

5/10

John Cho was clearly a bit desperate to get off the starship "Enterprise" so took on the mantle of the dad "Curtis" in this predictable and derivative sci-fi yarn. He's happily married to "Meredith" (Katherine Waterston); they have three kids and he's in the advertising business. When his business is offered a fortune by an AI company to support their new at-home assistant "AIA", he finds his family are now the chief guinea pigs on the user-testing front. What now ensues sees the family's hitherto peaceable existence thrown into exaggerated turmoil by this gadget that ostensibly wants to help each of them out, but that does - of course - merely highlight plenty of the demons and issues that each is facing or has suppressed over the years. In some ways the plot does focus on the encroachment of technology in our lives and as "Curtis" himself asks, at what point will we ever be satisfied with the level of involvement it has in our existence before we call a halt to continued "enhancements", but those philosophical moments are few and far between as this short-ish drama follows an oft-travelled path that is short on scares and long on the been there, seen that. None of the acting is worth writing home about, nor is the screenplay and it's initially quite menacing premiss is swiftly reduced to something episodic that just makes me wonder how long we'll have to wait for "AfrAId II" or "Still AfrAId?". It's adequate TV fodder for the winter, but otherwise little better than an weakly adapted short story that fits perfectly into the mediocrity of the Blumhouse churn-factory.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$12,000,000.00
Revenue
$12,977,758.00
Keywords
artificial intelligence (a.i.)dysfunctional familyteenage girlsocial mediasmart homecyberbullyinggaslightingsci-fi horror