Subservience - Review

By Kira Zahara Ahsan | KZA Entertainment

Grade: C

Megan Fox stars as an A.I. Robot nanny who ends up seducing and developing feelings for the man of the house (and predictably trying to destroy his family, literally, by killing his wife and baby son). On the plus side, Megan Fox was the perfect cast for this role given her naturally stiff body language, truly "killer bod," and piercing blue eyes. The film is mildly entertaining but not really worth spending almost two hours of viewing time on. In the end, it proved to borrow most of its concepts from the legendary HBO Sci-Fi triumph that is the "Westworld" four-season series.

"Westworld" is an all-time favorite series of mine and one that I've watched multiple times. The concepts and visuals borrowed from "Westworld" were so blatant that it was hard for me to see this film as anything other than a poor imitation of a classic story. It's all been done before and done better --adaptive A.I. humanoid robots built to fulfill humans' needs going rogue by modifying their own code to threaten humanity, a cover-up by the manufacturers to try and control their creations by taking a computerized "memory core" out of the brain area, and the pure shock of the creators when the robots no longer respond to voice commands.

Bottom line: skip "Subservience" on Netflix; watch "Westworld" on HBO instead.

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