Film Review: Uncanny

From Ian Holm's portrayal of Ashe in Alien to Brent Spiner's Data in Star Trek, our fascination with realistic Artificial Intelligence has evolved over time. The premise is certainly not a new one, but it still touches us at a primal level: What does it mean to be human? The old adage of "if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck…" is ultimately one of identity and identification. If it looks human and acts human, well… That's a question that has tripped us up for decades. UNCANNY is the story of a gifted young scientist, David (Mark Webber), who has spent the last 10 years of his life willingly locked away in a Tony Stark-esque candyland with state of the art technology creating the most realistic artificial intelligence the world has ever seen: Adam (David Clayton Rogers).