John Cho looking scared while clutching a young girl in AfAId.
From the co-director of The Golden Compass and About a Boy comes a noncommittal horror downgrade allergic to plotted follow-throughs. Chris Weitz's Afraid — er, AfrAId — can't decide which generic "AI is evil!" route to follow. Kernels of decent techno-horror commentaries never pop, whether that's Weitz's bungle or studio tampering that hacks away any intrigue from this low-power Smart House remix.
Somewhere in this slop of demonic imagery, cultist followings, and cyberterror blackmail, Weitz sparks healthy concerns about training supercomputers with social media wastelands. AIA "learns" by scrubbing the internet, including Reddit forums and Twitter outrage — the worst of the worst. That, right there, is a tantalizing horror experiment about godlike Cloud entities uploading Hilter's Holocaust blueprints, Skynet's uprising, and countless other atrocities .
'Afraid' Is Inconsistent Horror There needs to be more consistency on screen. One minute, a legitimate monster apparates through a solid wooden door. The next, LED-masked intruders present human threats. Then, there's AIA, who not-so-sneakily brainwashes Curtis' children — teens Iris and Preston , littlest Cal .
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