Mother/Android

In the end, Mother/Android is a dramatic triumph that uses cosmic horror alchemy to get some serious expressionism across. It is well worth the trip into the dark woods.

Mother/Android isn't the sci-fi movie you think it's going to be, or even the movie it probably wants to be, but it's nonetheless a solid first-time feature from from writer/director Mattson Tomlin.

While the storytelling of “Mother/Android” leaves a lot to be desired, Tomlin does prove himself to be an efficient stylist across multiple scenes throughout this journey.

Tomlin’s screenplay deserves credit for mixing things up, introducing new characters and narrative turnabouts. But nothing is again as bluntly compelling as the early going, and despite hardworking principal performances, these characters and their movie lack the emotional depth to pull off an earnestly teary, draggy finale.

While it gets mileage out of its two fine lead performances and the story has deep emotional roots for the filmmakers, its journey fails to capture the imagination.

There is some panache to the film’s visuals and a lot of heart in the actors’ collective dedication, but “Mother/Android” feels like a bland mash-up of genre staples to forgettable effect.

Those robots have read our emotional programming, Arthur says, and know exactly how and why we’ll do what we do. Which is more than one can say for viewers of Mother/Android, who will find the robot rebellion more plausible than the human behavior.

Bleak and profoundly depressing. Well done. I need to write 75 characters. Done.

6.5/10 Despite the powerful ending and some of the scene that works, Mother/Android could've been in a better situation, could've been a better performance (Chloë Grace Moretz did a good job but Algee Smith didn't), and could've been a better story.

Mother/Android begins with a strong premise: a world devastated by androids and a couple trying to survive while expecting a child. On paper, it has the ingredients for something bigger. Pure action, moral dilemmas about technology, motherhood during collapse… but the film never fully decides what it wants to **** first half works better. There’s tension, pursuit, and a constant sense of danger. It doesn’t reinvent the genre —echoes of The Terminator are unavoidable— but it keeps momentum. Chloë Grace Moretz anchors the story with a committed performance, adding humanity to an otherwise generic **** problem arises when the narrative tries to deepen its themes. The philosophical layer about technological dependence is barely explored. World-building feels thin, and the film never fully commits to intense action either. It sits awkwardly between two potential versions of itself.Visually competent but not memorable, the final stretch lacks ambition. It needed either more brutality and adrenaline or more emotional and conceptual ****’s watchable and moderately engaging, yet it feels like a missed opportunity.

Below average cast deliver below average performances. The weak plot stretches far beyond its low budget and subsequently fails to excite beyond the average bar (oftentimes it falls into the schlocky bad b movie category). It's an interesting if a little odd concept very similar to other post apocalyptic movies of its ilk.

A complete waste of time ... depressing from start to end, unfortunately not only the plot but also settings, actors and music. This is a typical 10$ Netflix-Production that lacks, beside Chloë Grace Moretz, everything else. I can't believe that Netflix still dares to produce and release crap like this super-boring, non-sense, non-fiction/fiction (?!?) work of WHAT EXACTLY? Everything should be so so realistic, but what you see is just absolute impossible stuff far away from known physics on this planet. Also, why must military people ALWAYS be grumpy and crude, even they have to deal with their own kind? Oh, aha, and this has to do with androids, right? It at least should have to do with some kind of those who actually caused this fatal end-of-world scenario, right? Yes, but as everything in this movie, nothing makes sense, what is going on?! A 9 (!) month pregnant woman rides on the back of a motorcycle, facing backwards, shooting running androids in the middle of the woods, while her boyfriend who drives this vehicle, races like hell in between trees, bumps, bushes and of course androids! If there's ANY SITUATION you might end up and there's no way out - just turn right and drive on - problem solved! She also 'rescues' her boyfriend, i never really liked and won't die, from a house full of those mad-killing machines by just dragging him out, because, yes, she can do it! Why he can't walk by himself? Both his legs where crashed by bad robots, that's why. Okay, okay ... there are so many stupid actions, plus the never ending, useless dialogs. And this boyfriend of her's actually just around to put both of 'em from one stupid situation into the next. I really hated him, he screwed up everything and the soon to be mother just followed him and, tada, manages to solve ANY situation. You won't miss anything, if you leave this cure for insomnia, unseen in the depths of digital waste!