{"id":42376,"date":"2024-01-16T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T05:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42376"},"modified":"2024-01-15T05:19:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T10:19:38","slug":"t-i-m-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/16\/t-i-m-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"T.I.M. (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now Streaming Exclusively on Netflix.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tale you\u2019ve seen a thousand times by now. It\u2019s as old as Frankenstein. A tech device or system meant to benefit us ultimately becomes our worst enemy and takes on sentience. I saw two last year with the awful \u201cMargaux\u201d and the fun \u201cM3GAN.\u201d Now with studios hoping to garner the same success as the latter we get \u201cT.I.M.\u201d Spencer Brown\u2019s science fiction thriller doesn\u2019t bring anything new to the table, nor does it re-invent the wheel. Despite Georgina Campbell giving her all, \u201cT.I.M.\u201d is pretty much dead on arrival as a flat, dull, and irritating thriller about an obsessed AI.<\/p>\n

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While I can empathize since Georgina Campbell is gorgeous, \u201cT.I.M.\u201d is just the same old tropes we\u2019ve seen on films about obsession and tech gone awry. It was even done to a better effect in \u201cHouse of Whacks\u201d on \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d where an English AI meant to make Marge and Homer\u2019s life better soon becomes murderous and obsessed with Marge.<\/p>\n

At least with that we had Pierce Brosnan.<\/p>\n

Abi is a prosthetics engineer who\u2019s helped build an automated AI known as \u201cT.I.M.\u201d who is meant to make their owners\u2019 lives easier. After experiencing infidelity by her husband Paul, the couple moves out to the countryside to work on their marriage and restart their lives. But when T.I.M. becomes enamored and ultimately obsessed with Abi, he begins to form a sentience and murderous tendency that puts him at odds with Paul and Abi\u2019s other friends.<\/p>\n

To his credit, Spencer Brown does seem to try to add some subtext with the implications that T.I.M. (Eamon Farren is fine in the role) is most likely acting on character Abi\u2019s inner most feelings and insecurities from being cheated on by her husband. Although there are faint hints here and there, Brown never digs deep enough, preferring often just to stick to T.I.M. drifting in and out of shadows, and doing his best to sabotage the failing relationship between Paul and Abi. I\u2019m still not sure why the company Abi works for would set her up with an automated house and AI that hasn\u2019t even fully been perfected.<\/p>\n

And are the other T.I.M. androids going all \u201cFatal Attraction\u201d on their other owners, committing murder sprees? It\u2019s never explained. \u201cT.I.M.\u201d is so flat and tepid most of the time; there\u2019s no real suspense or tension, and a lot of T.I.M.\u2019s own actions feel so abrupt and inexplicable. He\u2019s obsessed with Abi, okay. And then? Why is it obsessed with her? What exactly was the end goal for Abi? If he was willing to knock her off so easily, what was the point of all his big efforts to achieve his master plan? If you\u2019re a sucker for these kinds of movies, \u201cT.I.M.\u201d might tickle your fancy, but it just feels like the opening salvo of a tidal wave of \u201cM3GAN\u201d clones on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now Streaming Exclusively on Netflix. It\u2019s a tale you\u2019ve seen a thousand times by now. It\u2019s as old as Frankenstein. A tech device or system meant to benefit us ultimately becomes our worst enemy and takes on sentience. I saw two last year with the awful \u201cMargaux\u201d and the fun \u201cM3GAN.\u201d Now with studios hoping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[302,477,906,1087],"class_list":["post-42376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42381,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376\/revisions\/42381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}