Subservience (movie 2024) The future is female robots

Despite her undeniable sex appeal and a name that doubles down on it, Megan Fox has never quite achieved the cinematic status she once seemed so poised for.
One can argue whether that may be down to questionable career choices, the Transformers controversy, or her acting limitations, but she's been stuck in the straight-to-video purgatory for a while now. And in there, no one seems to utilize her better than C.K. Dale.

She was plenty entertaining in his survival thriller, Till Death. And in Subservience she is fun again, this time as a fembot. Or gynoid, if you prefer the more official designation.
Fox, last seen emoting well all the way back in Eminem's Love the Way You Lie video, is perfectly cast here as a beautiful and stilted male fantasy of ... well, subservience.
Her only desire is to serve her primary user. In this case, it is Nick, the overtattooed Italian stallion who can't quite seem to juggle two young kids and work and manly pastimes like getting drunk while working on a classic muscle car.
Normally, Nick has his wife, Maggie, played by Madeleine Zima, who provides a warm and very tall contrast to the tiny, steely Fox's robot. But without Maggie (this is handled so oddly in the movie), he is lost, and what's a lost man to do but buy a domestic fembot?

At first, things are going great. The robot now named Alice is great with kids, etc., but then Nick goes and messes with the settings, because that's just what people do, and lo and behold, Alice begins to evolve. And her evolution is very, VERY focused on making Nick happy. At all costs.

So yes, at its base, this is yet another sci-fi tinged thriller about collective fears of AI. And yes, eventually our robot overlords will watch these things and laugh. And yes, anyone with a bit of intelligence, artificial or otherwise, knows that the great downfall of our civilization will be brought on by the great dumbing down of the general population that is currently occurring so rampantly and not robots, but hey ... what are you gonna do? 
It's much easier to watch a silly movie than to start a "smarten up" revolution."

For all that, Subservience isn't as silly as it could have been. It diligently tries to raise some important questions about the power dynamics of subservient relationships and the dangers of self-learning from flawed behavior patterns, etc.
Overall, the movie's surprisingly decent for what it is, and ​almost, though not quite, clever and original enough to be good. Fox seems to be having fun in it. C.K. Dale seems to be having fun. In fact, the movie's ending hints at more to come.
The movie seems fine with its cheesiness - just look at that tagline of "Don't Turn Her On." Oh so funny. 

​Mild amusement with pretty robots. It'll pass the time.