Young Lucas (Ethan Fisher) is tasked with creating a chatbot for his sister Emma (Jennifer Kuklinski) and her roommates Luna (Jessica Finn), Bryce (Adam Marzano) and Julian (Jack Connelly), and at first it seems he has done a pretty good job with Ethan, a good looking, soft spoken and widely knowledgable AI creation. Soon everybody is using Ethan for their own ends, Emma as an ersatz-lover, Luna as a makeup advisor, Bryce as a means to live out his violent fantasies that include serial killing, and Julian wants to test a theory to make Ethan sentient, something everybody warns him about. Against all odds, Julian succeeds in his experiment, and now our heroes have a moral-free being on their hands who has just learned how to kill ...

Now sure, the "science" aspects of this movie are a bit wonky and have more in common with 1980s comedies like Weird Science than with the actual advancements of artificial intelligence in the 2020s, but this is really part of this featurette's charm, despite it's very current subject matter it dares to be retro in an entertaining way rather than alarmist in an unsettling way, and this way manages to tell a rather enjoyable genre story at a decent pace, with its bits of horror, science fiction and comedy all blended together for a cool ride.

If this has gotten you at all interested, feel free to check out Psycho Bot and plenty of bts material at https://www.youtube.com/@psychobot-movie

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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