2015 · Drama, Science Fiction

Ex Machina

There is nothing more human than the will to survive.

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Released
21 Jan 2015
Runtime
108 min
Rating
R
Director
Alex Garland
Language
EN
Country
United Kingdom
Budget
$15,000,000
Box office
$36,869,414
IMDb
tt0470752
Drama Science Fiction
Synopsis

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Cast
Domhnall Gleeson Alicia Vikander Oscar Isaac Sonoya Mizuno Corey Johnson Claire Selby Symara A. Templeman Gana Bayarsaikhan Tiffany Pisani Elina Alminas Chelsea Li Dan Pappaspanos
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Continuity by maya91 · 21 Jul 2025
The film establishes earlier on that a power outage causes the facility's security doors to fail-safe and unlock. It contradicts this internal logic when Caleb gets trapped inside at the end. The doors suddenly act as a prison rather than an open exit, which is a pretty glaring plot hole just to keep him stuck there for the climax of the movie.
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Continuity by william_roby84 · 18 Jan 2015
That is a classic prop placement error. After he signs the NDA and sets the pen down, the position of the pen jumps significantly between camera angles. It starts off to the side of the pad and then instantly teleports to the center for the following shot. It is just one of those quick editing slips where they didn't reset the prop exactly where it was before the cut.
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Factual error by j.gilbert · 09 Sep 2022
The math on that flight time puts the helicopter in a pretty difficult position regarding its fuel range. If the pilot was already circling the estate for two hours and then had to factor in the transit time from the airport plus the return trip, the total flight time would almost certainly exceed the four-hour operational limit of a Eurocopter EC 130. Movies frequently overlook the practical limitations of aviation for the sake of the plot, but in reality, that pilot would have been looking at a very dangerous fuel situation well before reaching back to the airport.
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