Unlike many lower budget flicks, I actually found TIM to have perfectly fine productions value and performances. Nobody's winning any acting awards, but everyone was believable for the most part, and nobody overshoots the mark so it doesn't turn hammy. All said and done, Eamon Farren probably deserves a little bit of praise for his performance as TIM the automaton.
The Script isn't as horrible as some others make it out to be, and maybe if this was like your first science fiction movie ever, and you were a child you might like this.
Where TIM falls apart is with its almost...supernaturally uninspired plot. It's like someone went to a sci-fi tropes page about robots/ai and picked every 3'rd entry then put that into chatGPT to spit out a script. For some reason, the writers did however decide to remove any reference or exploration of the more thoughtful/subtle themes usually accompanying this flavor of 'bad robot' genre. In that sense, not only is TIM generic, but its, quite simple. Simple as a thriller, simpler still as sci-fi goes.
The result is about as formulaic and by-the numbers you can get, and re-iterating the title it is a little bit impressive how little TIM brings to the table. It's an impressively generic and unoriginal. 4/10 for me. I can't seem to think of one thing about it that hasn't been done before, and done better. It's probably closer to a 5/10, but it was all I could do not to bump it down another star; a bit sad in a way, If they would have tried one thing, something, anything slightly different or innovative it could have been a pretty decent film. The budget was apparently there. The actors were passable. Alas, this is the equivalent of cinematic warm, fat-free milk.
The Script isn't as horrible as some others make it out to be, and maybe if this was like your first science fiction movie ever, and you were a child you might like this.
Where TIM falls apart is with its almost...supernaturally uninspired plot. It's like someone went to a sci-fi tropes page about robots/ai and picked every 3'rd entry then put that into chatGPT to spit out a script. For some reason, the writers did however decide to remove any reference or exploration of the more thoughtful/subtle themes usually accompanying this flavor of 'bad robot' genre. In that sense, not only is TIM generic, but its, quite simple. Simple as a thriller, simpler still as sci-fi goes.
The result is about as formulaic and by-the numbers you can get, and re-iterating the title it is a little bit impressive how little TIM brings to the table. It's an impressively generic and unoriginal. 4/10 for me. I can't seem to think of one thing about it that hasn't been done before, and done better. It's probably closer to a 5/10, but it was all I could do not to bump it down another star; a bit sad in a way, If they would have tried one thing, something, anything slightly different or innovative it could have been a pretty decent film. The budget was apparently there. The actors were passable. Alas, this is the equivalent of cinematic warm, fat-free milk.