Ex-Machina
Review by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar
Isaac are set to become household names when Star Wars: The
Force Awakens rolls into town in
December, but before then the
pair can be seen in Ex Machina, a
far more esoteric brand of sci-fi.
Gleeson is Caleb, a jobbing
coder at the world’s most
popular search engine (it’s not
Google, but you get the idea).
To his delight, he wins an office
draw to spend a week at the remote home of the company’s
CEO, programming wizard Nathan (he’s not Mark Zuckerberg,
but you get the idea), played by
man of the moment Isaac, sporting a beard and glasses combo
that gives him the appearance
of some sort of an Islamic hipster. Nathan isn’t quite what
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