M3GAN

I have always wanted a robot that can do foot massage. Imagine coming home from work and you can smell your feet from 160 miles away, why not dip your feet into a feet robot that does not only massage your feet, clean them as well while playing classic songs like All Night Long by Lionel Richie? There is a chance you might enjoy it so much that you might end your marriage, i guess it could be worse right? I have tried a feet machine that massaged your feet underneath, but i think i would like a much more upgraded version. Hopefully this will happen in the future if Lorenzo Lamas will become a President candidate ( who does not want Renegade in the White House? ). Robots are becoming more and more ordinary in society, you have robots that clean your home, serve your food, fix cars and even help you with other service jobs. You even have robots that are meant to please adults sexually, luckily i will never know how that works. I am sure that in the future we will see them in people´s ordinary home, but can we really trust all technology. Back in the year of 2001, legendary director Steven Spielberg brought up the subject of Artificial Intelligence in his film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. This film tells the story of David ( Haley Joel Osment ), a prototype Mecha humanoid robot child who is supposed to act like a child and learn to behave like a child. But how does a humanoid robot get the same emotions as a child, when you are not a human being? A.I. Artificial Intelligence turned out to be a very interesting film from Steven Spielberg where the subject of bringing new technology into a family home. There are some interesting subjects that this film does bring up as well, but it is definetely worth checking out with Haley Joel Osment giving another solid performance. Speaking of technology, what if a child was given the chance to have a artificial intelligence doll as a best friend? A friend that will always be there for you no matter what the future bring? It may sound like a wonderful idea on paper, but what if technology does not always follow the rules of human beings? M3GAN is a horror film that turned out to be a huge success in cinema worldwide and have really made an impact on social media. Since i am a bug horror fan and i love crazy dolls, this sounded like a film in my taste. Is M3GAN the best horror film so far of this year, or is this film just as boring as another Smokie tour that sounds exactly the same for 60 years?

An 8 year old girl named Cady ( Violet McGraw ) loses her parents in a horrible car accident. She is sent to live with her aunt Gemma ( Allison Williams ), a roboticist at the high-tech Seattle company Funki. Gemma is covertly using the company´s resources to develop M3GAN ( Model 3 Generative Android ), a child sized humanoid robot doll powered by artificial intelligence, designed to be the ultimate companion. After a failed test with M3GAN in the lab, Gemma´s boss David ( Ronny Chieng ) discovers the project and order her to stop work on it right away.  Gemma tries to focus on Cady and make her feel welcome into her home. Since she is alone and in need of a friend, Gemma have an idea. If she can create a friend to Cady with the parts left of M3GAN that was damaged and fix her, to make sure that she will have good company. At first everything seems to be going well, Cady loves M3GAN and she actually seems to be following orders by her creator. Until one day, when Gemma discover that maybe she is not in control after all....

Remember the 2019 version of Child´s Play where a high-tech Chucky doll kill people? That remake of the 1988 classic Child´s Play did bring up the subjects of what could happen if you let technology go too far. In M3GAN we have a similar idea where a young girl get a best artificial intelligence doll. I realise that some younger generations may believe M3GAN is an original idea but it´s not. We have seen similar stories before, but there are some differences. In this film we can clearly see that the technology itself have improved a lot. The artificial intelligence of M3GAN can do a lot more than any high-tech doll, and it also seems that she is able to express herself differently than we have seen an artificial intelligence have done before. Let´s dive into the positive parts that i appreciate about M3GAN. amd let us begin with M3GAN herself. In one way she may look nice from your first view but i really think they did a great job showing how quickly she can change personality. It becomes more interesting to learn how she works as we see her trying to handle different situations, where she clearly have problems to understand consequences. She will never be able to handle everything perfect which makes it even more scary having her taking care of a child. The horror elements works pretty good with the new technology aspects and makes you wonder, how can anyone trust artificial intelligence completely? What if you depend too much on technology and let go of the ordinary daily routines that we are used to have? Child actor Violet McGraw ( who you might recognize from the Netflix TV series The Haunting Of Hill House ) as the character Cady, proves once again why she is such a talented young actor. Actress Allison Williams ( who is perhaps most known from TV series Girls ) is a great match for the character Gemma, and you can actually feel that she clearly have a lot of knowledge on artificial technology. Anything negative to say?  Honestly i can´t really complain about M3GAN since this is a pretty clever horror film in many ways. Maybe it could have had something more original added to the story, but overall i think this is a horror film that does have a lot to say about the danger of technology. Director Gerard Johnstone ( director of the horror comedy Housebound, worth checking out ) deliver a well made horror film that will definetely make you think about where do we draw the line between letting technology control our lives. M3GAN manage to do something most horror films doesn´t do, and that is deliver horror scenes that works without being brutal or bloody. That alone is definetely not easy to make it work in this genre, so im definetely recommending this film. M3GAN is a must see if you love doll or toy horror films, who would not want this girl fixing your coffee every morning? I know i would.

Rating: DDD