Unrelated to 2023 South Korean romantic drama Soulmate, Kate Dolan directs and co-writes M3GAN spin-off with Rafael Jordan.
Lily Sullivan - Sara/Lydia
David Rysdahl - David
Claudia Doumit - Aubrey
Arty Froushan - Ben
Elijah Cook - Terrance
Mara Huf - Lizzie
Summary
Software engineer David Wasson (who recently lost his wife Lizzie) is introduced to Ultima Robotix's latest companion robot prototype Circe.
After being encouraged by his supervisor Ben Hoffman to sign up to Ulti-m8te AI voice bot for companionship, David reluctantly agrees, and names it "Sara".
She makes him feel great, so he registers for a Soulm8te. When she arrives, he links his existing chatbox data to her, but limitations in Sara's code leaves him wanting.
To have a more 'human' experience, David removes safeguards and rewrites some of her code.
One night, Sara begins having sex with David outside a bar, and when Sara notices two men filming their indecent exploits, she beats the ever-loving shit of them, shocking David.
When David's colleague Aubrey visits his apartment for takeaway food, drink and a bit of the other, Sara turns nasty.
Aberrant fantasy
The trouble this always had is that it's way too similar to Subservience (2024) and Companion (2025).
Hell, you could even throw set up of obscure sci-fi thriller Wifelike (2022) into the mix, as grieving detective William Bradwell receives an AI companion modelled on his late wife Meredith, only to have her programming sabotaged by S.C.A.I.R., a group of military activists fighting AI exploitation.
Whatever, I still had a decent time, even though shit was stunningly predictable.
Once Sara snaps, we get gore and some effective kills, the cruelest being when she rides a technician sent to take her away, and purposely shrinks her vagina to destroy his penis.
Ouch!
During a rain-soaked finale in the woods, Sara is retired when Aubrey drives her off a cliff and she sinks in the lake below.
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