I wanted to watch Ex Machina after viewing this video, but then I found the IMDB plot synopsis, read it and saved an hour and a half of my life.
The IMDB description doesn't do it justice.
Is it a great move? no, but its worth a watch.
I assumed, like you, it was going to be garbage, but it's not bad.
Personally I liked that it didn't dumb everything down so Joe Skumfuck can follow whats going on.
There's a line where one character asks another if he can fix a problem, to which the other replies "no there is a lot of secretes regarding the tech and I had the people responsible for building it, killed".
There is a moment of silence and then the dialog continues.
In a Movie for Everyone™ they would have added a line immediately after where he said "ha ha I'm only joking, I didn't really kill them"
Cos get it? It's a joke? Do you get it? He didn't really have them killed, he was just joking. GET IT? DO YOU FUCKING GET IT? SHOVEL MORE POPCORN IN TO YOUR TALK HOLE YOU FUCKING IMBECILE!
But the movie doesn't care if you get the joke, it continues regardless. Not that it is hard to follow, but with the constant dumbing down of movies these days it makes a refreshing change.
But it's not a smart movie either, you can guess where the plot is going fairly quickly but it's still a fun ride.
The two things I was left with after watching it were, the director has a fetish for women with small breasts, particularly Asians, and there is no one you actually feel for by the end, you hate everyone or at least I did.
The closest I came to a sympathetic character was the billionaire but even he was retarded.
Normally I would just assume this was a colossal fuck up on behalf of the script writer & director but given the other choices made in the movie I assume it's deliberate.
I would give it a watch, its worth 1 hour and 50 minutes of your life.