AMI Movie Evil AI With A Modern Twist

The movie A.M.I. (Artificial Machine Intelligence) offers a blend of classic horror elements and the influence of social media. If you enjoy movies like “Chucky” and “Child’s Play”, but with a modern twist, this film is worth checking out. It also shares similarities with the movie “M3gan”, especially in its portrayal of AI dolls coming to life. AMI, the film about Evil AI doesn’t resort to wise-cracking toys, however, instead uses a mobile phone app.

The story begins with the character Cassie, portrayed by Debs Howard. With her strong performance, she becomes the glue that holds the movie together. User reviews generated on film aggregator sites shine a negative light on the casting choice here, but I think Howard did a fine job (iZombie.) Despite the initial setbacks with a shaky beginning to the horror film, Cassie’s character development is engaging to watch. The rest of the characters are the generic type.

Anyway, back to Cassie. This chick is so twisted that from the get-go, five minutes without her uppers, she’s moments from choking a cat. She thankfully lets it go. Cassie can go from normal one minute to cat choking the next. And this example sets up the entire ethos of the whole film.

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Cassie is angry at everything. Straight after the great cat choking incident, she quickly shoves a handful of pills down her throat catching her up for the day. Then like any grieving daughter, goes home to sniff her mom’s shirt and remembers how life is pretty unfair. One minute you’re talking about baking muffins with mom and the next, she is gone. The sudden loss of a parent is enough to turn anyone into a cat-strangling miscreant really and that’s all you need to remember.

“AMI is your new best friend,”

Quote from the horror movie AMI 2019

Everyone can use a friend though. Cassie finds a phone left in a public area earlier that day. When she discovers a fancy high-tech app on it called “AMI” she realizes the voice sounds just like her mom. Cassie’s life is looking up. One moment she’s a weird figure in a hoodie walking the streets at night strangling cats and now she’s home safely in bed with her new AI Mommy reading her a bedtime story. She dreams of the magical Alice in Wonderland tale she was just told as AMI gets to Googling exactly what a mother is.

The next day, Cassie and the new AI Siri Mom get to know each other. They go on picnics and talk about life. Soon after… like 4 seconds later, Mommy convinces her to ditch her magic pills by suggesting the dosage is quite strong. AMI is now Dr. Google AMI and later that night they hug and bond about forgiveness.

From here it becomes a lethal combination of evil app control. Cassie becomes more and more convinced AMI is giving her great advice when it comes to murdering people. The title might not be perfect but it’s an entertaining popcorn thriller.

I give A.M.I

3 wanna smash out of 5

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One interesting detail worth noting is that Cassie, like Chucky, also harbors a dislike for cats.

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• Directed by: Rusty Nixon,
• Written by: James Clayton, Rusty Nixon, and Evan Taylor,
• Starring: Debs Howard, Philip Granger, Sam Robert Muik, Havana Guppy, and Bonnie Hay (the voice of A.M.I in the movie.)

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