The Artifice Girl (2022)

Very wordy, overly talky, occasionally preachy AI drama in 3 parts - The Artifice Girl review by PV

This reminds me of a stage play - I do not think it started as one. Maybe the writer came from the theatre. He - Franklin Ritch - also directs, produces and stars as the geek main character, and he also done da feem toon. Gosh.

Dangerous, that, esp for a new film maker - and the flaws caused but it show. Editing is badly needed, esp of the script - slice off the preachy flab, the lecture on AI. Improve clarity, date tags for the 3 parts (I,II, and III, which is very Roman...) would help too. Just 'X years later' for parts 2 & 3.

Part 1 is best imho. Interesting. Not sure where this would go. Subsequent parts jump the shark maybe. Depends if you like and buy the conceits in scifi, I suppose.

Maybe this was all done better with the high-budget glossy 'A.I.' in 2001. But then that was directed by Spielberg so...this wasn't.

It is arty, leftfield, low-budget and a useful contribution to the AI-movie canon. But it is mixed in quality, no more than mediocre. Part 1 scores 4 stars. 2 stars for parts 2 and 3.

3 stars overall.