Alex Garland is the author of the bestselling novels The Beach ,The Tesseract, and The Coma, which was created with images by his father Nicholas Garland. He is the co-author of the videogame, Enslaved. He has written the screenplays for 28 Days Later, Sunshine and adapted Kuzuo Ishiguro's Never Let MeGo for the screen.
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3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting but do not expect depth
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2015
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I was excited to read Ex Machina after enjoying Alex Garland's previous work, particularly The Tesseract. However, this let me down a little due to lack of depth. The story is engaging but there is very little analysis of character's emotional state and various issues around an emerging AI.
Perhaps I am being overly critical as this is a screenplay rather than a novel, but three stars is an accurate reflection on how much I enjoyed the read.
Let me start by saying this is a screenplay, not a novelisation. It doesn't say that anywhere in the description, but I did know that going into it.
The film is brilliant and I highly recommend seeing it before reading this script, which is faultless. Alex Garland is a master of the form and has struck gold again with this latest offering
Fascinating! I has kept me thinking. Probably the film is a slight improvement on the screenplay as printed here hih only makes on respect Alex Garland even more because he directed it as well.It is good to have the screenplay if you're really interested in A.I. because there are a lot of ideas there.
OK, what have we here? Thoughtful, thrilling, emotive, evasive, menacing, insinuating, allegorical...and terrifying. Have I left anything out? Very, very impressive.