Tau

It’s just passable popcorn entertainment for a Friday night on the couch, and not on the same level as more inspired Netflix genre movies from the likes of Mike Flanagan, such as Hush or Gerald’s Game.

TAU is winningly guileless as it dresses an old story up in new clothes: Sometimes it takes a Creature to understand the depths of Dr. Frankenstein's monstrosity.

The production design — digital backdrops augmenting vast living rooms and a library, even — is impressive. It’s rare that production design ever rescues a movie from a script that’s gone down the rabbit hole of ridiculous that Tau does.

A wannabe-thriller about artificial intelligence with little wit of its own.

For the impressively moronic dialogue, Oldman brings a lack of imagination so complete that he could plausibly explain this performance away as a high-concept ironic joke.

The movie isn't just a thriller about a ruthless scientist, who will stop at nothin just to achieve his goals but also about the young woman, who develops a relationship with a cold blooded A.I. I believe it is at the spotlight of the entire movie, thus makin it worth watchin even more than one time ;-) Enjoy watchin

Never thought I'd dislike Gary Oldman, but his voice of the AI is just terrible.

There are films you know won’t redefine the genre, yet you still choose to stay until the end. That’s what happened to me with TAU. It’s a small, almost theatrical sci-fi thriller that plays with the classic trapped-person-trying-to-escape premise… with the added twist of an all-controlling artificial intelligence. It’s not brilliant, but it’s far from the disaster some claimed it to be.What works best is the core idea: not so much the physical escape as the attempt to emotionally educate a machine. That’s where the film becomes intriguing. When it focuses on curiosity, fear, or self-awareness within the system, it gains depth. You can tell it wants to explore identity and learning, even if it doesn’t always go far **** problem appears when the AI begins to act with a naïveté that’s hard to justify. At times, it feels far too easy to manipulate something that should theoretically be several steps ahead. That weakens the tension. And once the viewer stops believing in the danger, the narrative pulse inevitably drops.Maika Monroe carries the film with solid presence; she conveys vulnerability without overacting. The human antagonist, however, feels flatter than he should, which limits the central conflict. Visually, it’s well executed: clean design, cold lighting, and a mise-en-scène that fits its budget without unnecessary ****’s not a major statement on artificial intelligence, nor does it compete with more ambitious genre landmarks. But as a contained piece with a recognizable central idea and a few well-handled suspense beats, it’s watchable. It has its naïve moments. It has questionable solutions. Still, I finished it without regret.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The first ten minutes let's say that the story tries to seduce you but after that the film dies. This sci-fi thriller commits the worst and most common sin of the genre and is believing that its story is more intelligent and ambitious than it really is and if you add to that the protagonist's lackluster interpretation, what remains is one of the worst films of Netflix and another mess for the genre in their catalog.