Soulm8te (2026)

 

There's been quite a string of when Androids go bad movies in the past few years, 'M3gan' (2022) was a good laugh but could have done with ramping the violence up though. It's sequel 'M3gan 2.0' last year was a disaster, it really didn't know what genre it wanted to be, straying into a comedy sc-fi!!! but the cream of the crop was the excellent dark, gripping 'Companion' also from last year with a dark brilliant performance from Sophie Thatcher. So here we are with a new release, a tech firm employee tests a new female "soulmate" android played by Lily Sullivan, and who can blame him when he opens the box! I have to admit my expectations weren't very high for this release but it turned out to be a very enjoyable watch. Well acted, the film never drags it's heels, Lily is very easy on the eye it must be said! and there's a good splash of unexpected ultra-violence, and a nice neat payoff at the movies finale.

4/5