A girl goes clubbing, she makes out with different guys and steals their valuables. She then goes to a pawn shop to sell everything. On her way home she's grabbed by a black SUV. She wakes up in a concrete basement cell with 2 other people. They are all wearing some mouth covering for some reason. She immediately plans her escape, manages to cause a huge explosion so all three can escape upstairs to a fancy apartment. Then suddenly a metal statue transforms into a robot and kills the other 2 and grabs the girl. Then the running the place shows up.
He is Alex, the world's foremost tech entrepeneur who is working on his latest and greatest AI project called Tau. Tau runs his apartment. It controls a bunch of little flying cleaning drones as well as the attack robots but Tau also has a voice and orders the girl around. Julia and Alex come to a sort of reluctant agreement. She will submit to his experiments if he gives her clothes and food. But she continues to cause trouble. Alex conducts experiments on her to turn her mind and emotions into an algorithm for Tau and she's an excellent candidate. Problem is that at the end of the experiments the subjects are eliminated. Every day she has to do little mental tests but instead tries to find ways to escape. Eventually she engages in conversations with Tau and starts gaining its trust. Alex leaves every morning for work. His company is facing some deadline for a billion dollar government contract. Yet during conferences with his executives he doesn't care, just offers to be ready on time.
In the meantime Julia and Tau have grown close. She makes it feel like a person, feeding its emotions by reading books to it about poetry and music and telling it about the world outside. Alex notices as Tau doesn't punish Julia swiftly enough. In turn Alex punishes Tau by erasing some of its firmware i.e. It's "memories" which cause Tau to scream in pain.
Eventually, Julia's attempts become more successful with the help of Tau, but then there they also have a falling out before the final attempt.
I enjoyed Tau quite a bit, even though there's a lot that doesn't work. Tau's voice is awful. I couldn't believe it was voiced by Oldman. Terrible. Skrein never convinces. Cinematography is poor. Too often it's too dark and too monotone (usually all red). They could have done more with Alex's character. And why on earth doesn't Julia just comply for the sake of a good life or even try to seduce Alex who lives by himself. Doesn't make sense. For a sci-fi movie there isn't a whole lot of science here. The visual effects are pretty good though. Overall a strong effort that could have offered a bit more though.
He is Alex, the world's foremost tech entrepeneur who is working on his latest and greatest AI project called Tau. Tau runs his apartment. It controls a bunch of little flying cleaning drones as well as the attack robots but Tau also has a voice and orders the girl around. Julia and Alex come to a sort of reluctant agreement. She will submit to his experiments if he gives her clothes and food. But she continues to cause trouble. Alex conducts experiments on her to turn her mind and emotions into an algorithm for Tau and she's an excellent candidate. Problem is that at the end of the experiments the subjects are eliminated. Every day she has to do little mental tests but instead tries to find ways to escape. Eventually she engages in conversations with Tau and starts gaining its trust. Alex leaves every morning for work. His company is facing some deadline for a billion dollar government contract. Yet during conferences with his executives he doesn't care, just offers to be ready on time.
In the meantime Julia and Tau have grown close. She makes it feel like a person, feeding its emotions by reading books to it about poetry and music and telling it about the world outside. Alex notices as Tau doesn't punish Julia swiftly enough. In turn Alex punishes Tau by erasing some of its firmware i.e. It's "memories" which cause Tau to scream in pain.
Eventually, Julia's attempts become more successful with the help of Tau, but then there they also have a falling out before the final attempt.
I enjoyed Tau quite a bit, even though there's a lot that doesn't work. Tau's voice is awful. I couldn't believe it was voiced by Oldman. Terrible. Skrein never convinces. Cinematography is poor. Too often it's too dark and too monotone (usually all red). They could have done more with Alex's character. And why on earth doesn't Julia just comply for the sake of a good life or even try to seduce Alex who lives by himself. Doesn't make sense. For a sci-fi movie there isn't a whole lot of science here. The visual effects are pretty good though. Overall a strong effort that could have offered a bit more though.