Wifelike Riffs Off Stepford Wives and Mr. Robot

From writer-director James Bird comes Wifelike, an attractive sci-fi thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Good Neighbor, The twelfth Man) and Elena Kampouris (Sacred Lies, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2). The trailer appears suitably unusual, with Kampouris affecting some Stepford Wives/Ex-Machina android posing and positioning, creating an oddly compelling character that looks like a bizarre commentary on earlier horny AI machine movies.

From the official PR, Wifelike is about “a grieving detective in the near-future (Meyers) [who] hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market.” He’s additionally bought a synthetic human (Kampouris) to be his companion, programming her to behave like his late spouse. But when an underground resistance group makes an attempt to sabotage Kampouris, she begins to query all the pieces about her life, programming, and environment.

This movie appears suitably bizarre, and whereas the direct-to-digital looks like a mark on the standard, each Myers and Kampouris are stable actors, and with the unusual premise and clearly affected actions within the trailer, this is perhaps one thing that basically knocks it out of the park. Just bizarre sufficient to work looks like an apt strategy to describe this one. Also, deliver again R-rated horny thrillers please.

Wifelike might be out there in choose theaters and out there on digital providers August 12.

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