Alexa and Siri might be evil, ya’ll. Like, they might be planning to take over your house and run your life. So better watch out, better not pout.

Sigh. Dark Cloud is a very boring, very uninspired story about a woman who moves into a house with an AI designed to help her with her memory loss issues. But the AI is smothering and needy and soon she finds she’s being controlled.

There’s not a lot going on in this film… by which I mean both thematically but also literally. It’s only about 80 minutes long, but it feels like its idling for at least an hour of that. And when it finally kicks into gear, I guess there are a couple of ideas that have a little merit but, really, it’s just another AI Is Mean movie.

Also, that cover is some pretty egregious lies. There’s nothing remotely dark, gothic, surreal, or horrific like that in this flick. It’s pretty much today with some fancy sci-fi interfaces here and there. Even the AI looks like my smart thermostat.

I was deeply bored and really over this film even before the half-way mark. There are few original or interesting ideas it poses, assuming you’ve seen any sci-fi flick with an AI.

Score: 60