A grieving widow brings his wife back from the dead and reimagines her as the wife he once loved. All the while, he works for CRU (a company that makes it their business to recover AI units that go rogue). Bradwell is their lead agent, but when a shadow unit fix their sights on his wife, Bradwell does everything in his power to protect her, but is Bradwell truly up to the task?
Wifelike feels like one of a long assembly line of AI going rogue films and to a certain extent it is... the problem with this film is that, at least for around an hour it covers said territory in the most boring and uninteresting way. Genuinely the only thing that held my interest for the first hour was Elena Kampouris and her smoking hot body and pretty face....but then at just past the hour mark the film turns a corner and becomes slightly more interesting...
What eventually unfolds is a tale of unrequited love and one man's desperate attempt to get the woman he wants through any means possible...maybe it's intended as a sad love story of a deluded individual or maybe it's a terrifying allegory focussing on the rise of the machines....no matter what you try to do nothing can stop AI...heck that's more terrifying than anything that Cronenburg, Spielberg, Kubrick or Craven can put in front of us.
The turn of events towards the end were semi-surprising and made the film better than it has any right to be, but truth be told the robotic and rather boring two-thirds that proceeded the decent finale don't necessarily mean that the stoic patience required to endure this film necessarily means that the ends are in anyway justified.
This genre has become tenapenny nowadays and Wifelike is certainly no crowd pleaser and nor does it do anything to set it apart from its peers or make it in anyway remotely interesting.
The old saying goes "That if you've seen one you've seen them all" and with Wifelike that seems to be a case in point. There have been lots of AI related films and if you trawl through some earlier efforts the chances are you will find much better offerings.
The bad outweighs the good here I'm afraid so Wifelike gets a thumbs down from me.
Wifelike feels like one of a long assembly line of AI going rogue films and to a certain extent it is... the problem with this film is that, at least for around an hour it covers said territory in the most boring and uninteresting way. Genuinely the only thing that held my interest for the first hour was Elena Kampouris and her smoking hot body and pretty face....but then at just past the hour mark the film turns a corner and becomes slightly more interesting...
What eventually unfolds is a tale of unrequited love and one man's desperate attempt to get the woman he wants through any means possible...maybe it's intended as a sad love story of a deluded individual or maybe it's a terrifying allegory focussing on the rise of the machines....no matter what you try to do nothing can stop AI...heck that's more terrifying than anything that Cronenburg, Spielberg, Kubrick or Craven can put in front of us.
The turn of events towards the end were semi-surprising and made the film better than it has any right to be, but truth be told the robotic and rather boring two-thirds that proceeded the decent finale don't necessarily mean that the stoic patience required to endure this film necessarily means that the ends are in anyway justified.
This genre has become tenapenny nowadays and Wifelike is certainly no crowd pleaser and nor does it do anything to set it apart from its peers or make it in anyway remotely interesting.
The old saying goes "That if you've seen one you've seen them all" and with Wifelike that seems to be a case in point. There have been lots of AI related films and if you trawl through some earlier efforts the chances are you will find much better offerings.
The bad outweighs the good here I'm afraid so Wifelike gets a thumbs down from me.