T.I.M.: All for the Codex of Love

MOVIE INFO:

An engineer begins work on her company’s latest product, an A.I. humanoid called T.I.M. — Technologically. Integrated. Manservant. Things take a turn for the worse when T.I.M.’s servient programming leads to a dangerous obsession with her.

REVIEW:

A.I. and robots in movie have gone bad for a while now. T.I.M. (Technology Integrated Manservant) is no different. It just plays with the main characters, Abi’s (Georgina Campbell) heart. She’s a robotics engineer trying to beat the Chinese at the first commercially available humanoid looking robot. Abi loves her job but hates the pressure. She also loves her husband- Paul (Mark Rowley) but detests his past infidelity. So Abi will give him a second chance, by moving to a company owned automated house in the country, with the hunky good looking required TIM (Eamon Farren) just out of beta testing. Hubby is jealous and distrustful of TIM, but is game to make his wife happy. Abi is happy with house and TIM, but jealous of the female neighbor- Rose (Amara Karan) who lives across the glen- the only other human for miles. TIM sees husband and wife making love, develops confusion followed by love for Abi, and then a possessive envy. A.I. code developed by GPGchat can write the rest of the plot using key words Sci-Fi, horror and jealousy.

Writer-director Spencer Brown, in his first beta movie experience, gives us an entertaining if somewhat generic movie about another acronym named A.I. desiring to be human. It’s the Pinocchio syndrome that has taken over sci-fi, horror blends lately. M3GAN was the last successful example. T.I.M. being lower on the scale gets the straight to Netflix treatment.

Love of the artificial human kind can only exist with safe words that not only shutdown machine penises but the whole system before it develops stalker and killer tendencies. Humans being human are never a good examples to develop whole machine structures around, especially if watching movies is the main learning mode. TIM just shows that you should never take your work home. Movie A.I.s will always break Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics. They’ll kill the things you love before they’ll rewrite their perfectly executed code.

Ferren relishes being the A.I. It’s a joy to find micro expressions beneath the plastic exterior. He is also a very good robot. He excels at the creepy robot essentials: stillness, lurking, blank staring, internet meddling, vocal impersonation. He exists in the endearing-off putting continuum, all done with the precise believable pathos. It’s easy to see how Abi can takes his side over the people she loves. How this deep fake can easily and wirelessly take over her life.