from Jonathan Klotz
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If you’ve randomly scrolled through any streaming service blindfolded and pressed play after scrolling for 30 seconds, there’s a good chance you’ve just pressed play on a helpful AI gone bad. With hundreds of movies following this main plot, Netflix’s latest streaming hit, slavery, struggling to stand out. It is, thanks to Megan Fox’s performance.
That’s right, I just complimented Megan Fox on her acting. Fox once again teams up with the director of the surprisingly good thriller Until death for the movie, and I mean that as a compliment, but she plays a great emotionless robot.
Megan Fox was born to play an evil robot
From the moment you press play Obedienceyou know where it’s going and the first half has no twists on the classic formula we’ve come to expect. Michele Morrone, by Netflix erotic thriller 365 is Nick, a husband and father trying to keep the family together while his wife Maggie, played by Madelina Zima (who plays Grace, the youngest Sheffield in The nannyin case you must feel old today) is in hospital for heart surgery. Fox plays “Alice,” an advanced Sim, the new android who takes on the workforce as a nanny/housekeeper to help while the family rebuilds.
If you guessed that Alice is slowly getting more sinister, congratulations, you’ve seen at least one other movie before. In this case, she is trying to stand in for Maggie.
If the movie had stuck with the series of “accidents” around the house, it might have been more interesting, but instead, Obedience tries to do a little too much. There’s a subplot about Nick’s business dealing with workers upset over the Sims’ performance, a really weird scene with Alice seducing Nick using Maggie’s voice, and a wild tease of more potential movies that undermines all the tense moments of a super-strong killer robot on freedom inside the couple’s house.
Megan Fox is great, but the rest of the movie…
Although Megan Fox plays the evil AI, Michele Moron gives the most lifeless performance in Obedience. Weird, it kind of works because Nick isn’t supposed to be a great guy, at least I don’t think he is. With a slew of erotic thrillers under his belt, Morrone is becoming the equivalent of Netflix Michael Douglasand when he shows up in anything, you know he’s playing the part of a scumbag.
With a different male lead and a tighter focus on the parts of the film that really work, Obedience it could have been a future cult hit, but it’s decent as it is streaming movie when you have nothing else to watch. included Rotten Tomatoesthe critics were not kind; out of 30 reviews at the time of writing, it’s 50 percent rotten, and the fan rating out of over 250 reviews isn’t much better at 53 percent. Yet, it’s also the number one movie on Netflix in the United States in its debut weekend on the service.
Submission is 30 years too late
If Obedience it was HBO coming out in 1994, it was going to be a hit. Unfortunately, 2024 is and outside of a few legitimately creepy moments, all thanks to Megan Fox’s decision to cast him as a killer robot, he’s completely forgettable today.
SUBMISSION RESULT FOR REVIEW
If you really want to see another evil AI movie before M3GAN 2.0 get out, you’re doing worse. If anything, Fox seems to be embracing his new career arc as a movie villain. She is willing to take some risks, but maybe there will be a more exciting scenario next time.
