"Will?"
Wally Pfister's directing debut takes on the classic computer-intelligence-taking-over story and drags it into the 21st Century, the result being a film that - as expected from Pfister - looks stunning, but which is relentlessly earnest to the point of being soporific. The script is decent enough, in spite of the sledgehammer verbal and visual religious and nature-vs.-technology metaphors, and there is good work from Rebecca Hall as the wife whose love and devotion to her husband is pushed to interesting extremes, as well as one of Paul Bettany's better performances, but overall a greater variety of pace and tone might have benefitted the film as a viewing experience.
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