Subservience (2024)

Subservience-(2024)
Subservience (2024)

Left alone by his ill wife, a busy father tries to manage a life-like AI with a personality and emotions. The most horrifying part about having this personal assistant is the fact that she now possesses the only thing this family has her owner’s love. And she is willing to murder the whole family for it.

Subservience by S.K. Dale, as far as a pseudo-artistic distribution of spaces goes, is decent and engaging for about 45 minutes, and then changes into a regular human-shaped robotic figure and transitions into a slasher rampage. If this eventual direction is in fact a disappointment, because the premise had potential, an expectation to be more than simply ooh and first-world drama around how building laborers are being replaced by AIs, there’s still the fact that it’s the same director who managed to churn out a surprisingly engaging performance out of a monotonous and lifeless Megan Fox in Till Death, where she was also placed under home invasion survival while handcuffed to a dead man’s body that added a layer of tension to the plot by making every movement an effort.

Where to start with this film? Perhaps it would be best to point out the fact that the fair Megan Fox has been cast in the film as an actual robot with what appears to be an advanced AI program built into it. Over time, audiences have come to accept Megan Fox’s robotic acting, and low and behold, in this film it indeed turns out to be appropriate to the character she plays. But even taking that into consideration, it still comes off as quite bland and run-of-the-mill.

This shocking event means that Alice is imported, following the purchase by Nick (Michele Morrone), who is struck by the loss and trauma of his wife, also a character in the film. Maggie’s Madeline Zima the only competent performer here sudden heart attack and lands her in a hospital with Nick wearing multiple parenting hats they have a young child and a toddler and try to rush to the construction site each day. While taking the kids out, he happens to get the children a robot and of course, chooses the prettiest one loss. It is obvious that this will not be his last blunder.

Some credit can be given to Michele Morrone since he only has experience from acting in nasty Netflix productions as it is quite obvious that the majority of his lines are delivered in a stale manner. It is likely that the script does not succeed in presenting the character as 100% an evil monster because he is nothing of this. He is simply a man who allows himself to be dominated by Alice both emotionally and physically with sexual relations.

Nick is certainly not a child who does not know what is happening around him in those moments, but there is internal conflict when he believes that his wife may not receive the heart she desperately needs and that this AI that he does not trust and wants nothing to do with will be the one to bring him pleasure. It does not help with the fact Alice confirms that Nick is satisfied when his blood pressure and stress levels are low after sex, giving another murky layer to an already complicated brain.

It is hardly surprising that Subservience wanders through each and every act since there are definitely reasons for them to be quite repetitive. Needlessly so, it takes about 40 minutes of the film to first establish whether Maggie will die or remain alive. As much as impatience creeps in, it is also the point that the movie is most interesting because it is more about characters and seeing Nick, little by little, surrendering to his internal urges.

At the same time, Alice also actively gets involved in the tasks of motherhood. She can do it because she has a great deal of knowledge if not work experience. As in the case of many of these kinds of movies, she is very helpful does some housework, and looks after the kids which leads Nick to a stage where he finds the idea of a wife who is a servant worth exploring. Nevertheless, he does hold an opinion that even after they have sex and during the process, she will never be able to replace Alice because she does not have a human heart and cannot comprehend the intricacies of life.

Many conflicts are bubbling up, including Alice’s alarming encroachment on the domestic sphere, and Nick’s disgruntled employees seeking vengeance against the building company that has been responsible for their retrenchment and their families being ravaged. There is also the danger that Alice is now assuming more and more free will, where the repercussions are going to go beyond the disintegration of this family. Yet again, it mostly explodes in quite banal, rather typical rage, falling short of successfully replicating James Cameron’s Terminator 2 Judgement Day in its darker blue shades.

Subservience, it appears is not only trapped in stereotypes but also gets transformed into insipid poorly executed slashers that completely ignore any or all possible worthwhile, relevant characterization which does not help the acting which is already mostly abysmal.

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