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Shailene Woodley and Jack Whitehall star in this groan-inducing Amazon Original sci-fi comedy. Set in the near future, in which a stiff President succeeds in building 'the wall' and robots have replaced immigrants in menial jobs, Charles and Elaine are both unlikeable characters - he is a serial womaniser and she is a calculating gold-digger - who use their illegal robot (nice) doppelgangers to play and manipulate their victims and act as their servants. After a mix-up of schedules/addresses, the two robot versions end up spending the night together, decide to run away to Mexico where equal rights for robots exists, and take over their human counterparts' lives. There is some value in watching the human versions expose their fallibilities and the robots striking back, and Woodley and Whitehall do their best, but overall this essentially two-hander (four-hander?) is very low-powered in its writing (a case in which swearing is a lazy substitute for actual humour) and chugs along charmlessly and somewhat pointlessly.
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