Wendy Ide 

TIM review – clunky AI paranoia thriller

Eamon Farren makes a creepy robot but is let down by the obvious cyborg stalker plot in this techno-chiller
  
  

Georgina Campbell, Eamon Farren and Mark Rowley in TIM
Georgina Campbell, Eamon Farren and Mark Rowley in TIM. Photograph: PR IMAGE

This stylishly icy-looking thriller sounds the techno-fear klaxon and stirs up a hornet’s nest of paranoia about AI and deep fake technology, but then rather misses the point with a clunky cyborg stalker plot. Prosthetics engineer Abi (Georgina Campbell) takes a new job with fringe benefits – specifically a passive-aggressive robot butler named TIM (Eamon Farren, suitably creepy). TIM is attentive and solicitous, but the numerous cutaways to knives and waste disposal units leave us with little doubt about the threats that lurk in Abi’s perfect life.

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