By Jonathan Klotz
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If you were randomly scrolling through any streaming service blindfolded and pressing play after scrolling for 30 seconds, there’s a good chance you pressed play on a movie about useful AI gone wrong. With hundreds of movies following this basic plot, Netflix’s latest streaming hit, Subordination, fight to stand out. It does, thanks to Megan Fox’s performance.
That’s right, I just praised Megan Fox for her performance. Fox reteamed with the director of the surprisingly good thriller until death for the movie, and I mean this as a compliment, but she plays a tremendous emotionless robot.
Megan Fox was born to play an evil robot
From the moment you press play SubordinationYou know where it’s going, and the first half has no changes to the classic formula we’ve come to expect. Michele Morrone, of the netflix erotic thriller 365 series, is Nick, a husband and father trying to keep the family together while his wife, Maggie, played by Madelina Zima (who played Grace, the youngest Sheffield in the babysitterin case you needed to feel old today) is in the hospital for heart surgery. Fox plays “Alice”, an advanced Sim, the new android who takes over the staff as a nanny/maid to help while the family recovers.
If you guessed that Alice slowly becomes more and more sinister, congratulations, you’ve seen at least one other movie before. In this case, try to replace Maggie.
If the movie had stuck with the “accidents” sequence in the house, it might have been more interesting, but instead, Subordination tries to do too much. There’s a subplot about Nick’s business dealing with workers upset by the introduction of The Sims, a really weird scene with Alice seducing Nick using Maggie’s voice, and a wild tease for more potential movies that undercuts all of the tense moments of a super strong robotic assassin on the loose. inside the couple’s house.
Megan Fox is great, but the rest of the movie…
Even though it’s Megan Fox playing the evil AI, Michele Morrone gives the most lifeless performance in Subordination. Oddly enough, it works because Nick is not supposed to be a great guy, at least I don’t think he is. With multiple erotic thrillers under his belt, Morrone is becoming the Netflix equivalent of miguel douglasand when he shows up in something, you know he’s playing a badass.
With a different male lead and a greater focus on the parts of the film that really work, Subordination It could have been a cult hit in the future, but as it stands, it’s a decent hit. transmission Movie for when there is nothing else to watch. In rotten tomatoesthe reviews have not been kind; out of 30 reviews at the time of this writing, it’s 50 percent rotten, and the fan rating, out of over 250 reviews, isn’t much better, at 53 percent. And yet, it’s also the number one movie on Netflix in the United States in its first weekend on the service.
Submission comes 30 years late
Yeah Subordination was a HBO Released in 1994, it would be a success. Unfortunately, it’s 2024, and aside from a few legitimately creepy moments, all thanks to Megan Fox deciding to go for it as a killer robot, it’s completely forgettable today.
SUBORDINATION REVIEW SCORE
If you really want to watch another evil AI movie before M3GAN 2.0 it comes out, you make it worse. At least Fox seems to be embracing her new career arc as a streaming movie villain. She’s willing to take some risks, but maybe next time she’ll have a more exciting script.
