The creepy/murderous doll sub-genre moves into the age of apps and AI with this smart and knowing low-budget horror that is also great fun. Amongst the building scenes of robo-carnage, the film offers reasonably rounded main characters and manages to make some pertinent points about consumerism, parenting and even current concerns about the burgeoning impact of AI, but all of that is not the main reason for watching the film. With echoes of past hits ranging from Metropolis, Childs's Play and TV's Humans to I, Robot, the story takes its time in the first act to set up a credible and logical scenario - even if plot-holes are rather obvious throughout - that all leads to a barnstorming finale, and whilst it holds no real narrative surprises, M3GAN is very well made and played straight effectively.
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