TIM review – sinister household gadget leads AI thriller of android infatuation

Walking robot who looks like a Nazi youth leader turns out – surprise surprise – to have creepy designs on his owner

As if the future of AI wasn’t already nightmarish enough, along comes this British sci-fi thriller with its storyline about an AI servant becoming dangerously infatuated with his female owner. It’s a creepy premise: a cross between Fatal Attraction and The Servant, Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey’s 1963 drama about a malevolent manservant. Though in the end TIM …

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