Gary Crosby

Good acting from Rosamund Pike. An important bopic. I knew a little about Marie Curie but nothing about the depths of her character and the importance of her work. Very well done,slightly sureal flash forwards to the positive and negative results of Marie's pioneering discoveries,Radiotherapy ( in France Curietherapy) ,Hiroshima and Chernobyl. Deepened my respect for her.

At first this film feels somewhat boring and slow. However i feel Katee Sackhoff holds it together with her skills as an actress (brilliant in Battlestar Galactica) A low budget movie,so SFX not upto par with todays expectations,but this is less important for a movie that is more philosophical and centred almost entirely upon Katee's character and the AI ARTI. I thought i understood some of its plot and ideas,but was still unimpressed. Turing tests for artificial intelligence,computer virtual realities,simulations and quantum physics all get a role to play in the underlying ideas,but i was still left confused. However after reading a number of explanations on line by folk obviously brighter than i,i came to realise that it is very deep,clever and thought provoking (apparently) so i think its worth another watch or even a few watches just to try and get a better handle on it.Worth a try. And ultimately its got Starbuck in it,so it can't be that bad.