After an intriguingly neon-soaked future noir opening, this latest Netflix Original very quickly becomes an almost one-set bottle show, as a young woman is kidnapped and imprisoned in a hi-tech apartment and subjected to human/AI experimentation by a scientist desperate to make his ideas work in order to meet a boardroom deadline. The reliable Ed Skrein is clearly playing an intelligent academic character because he wears glasses and makes frequent entrances looking serious, Maika Monroe does her best with fairly routine material as the captive, and Gary Oldman gives possibly the most human performance as the voice of the AI Tau. The movie feels very familiar, the many genre references from 2001 to Demon Seed and a fairly routine plod along predictable and repetitive narrative lines giving it a lack of freshness, in spite of some nice graphics and the occasional lively idea. Once it finishes, however, it does not linger in the mind.
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