Fox’s creepy robot servant tries to take over in this sci-fi horror, playing on AI fears. Were it less predictable, it could have been a cult classic. But it’s not
eople used to rag on Megan Fox for her lack of expressiveness, which may or may not be attributable to all the cosmetic surgery. But by playing an android in this piece of sci-fi/horror fluff, it’s almost like she’s clapping back at her detractors, having fun as a robot lady with a sculpted body straight out of a lingerie catalogue, lips like padded roll bars, and an almost permanently frozen, inscrutable expression – all the better to hide the murderous code scrolling through her CPU.
Shot it seems in Bulgaria, passing for an America sometime in the future, Subservience revolves at first around an average middle-class nuclear family. Father Nick Perretti is a bit of big dumb lug, but a devoted husband to wife Maggie and father to two kids, primary-school-aged Isla and toddler Max .
Actually, the script by Will Honley and April Maguire is pretty obviously anti-AI, especially when it comes to the threat it poses to labour and employment, a subject close to the film industry’s heart. And there’s some genuinely funny-sad dialogue from Zima’s Maggie when she thinks she’s dying and tries to pass on parenting advice to Nick for the kids in future, like asking him to tell Max not to have posters for bands in his dorm room “because those kids never get laid”.
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