Wordiezett So much average

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Ben Out of all the movies & shows I've watched this year, Tau is certainly one of the better ones. The start of the film has a completely different vibe from the rest of the movie though.If you were expecting a crazy & scary horror movie, I can see why you disliked Tau. The film did not contain nearly as much action as the trailers foretold.The reason I decided to watch Tau was mostly out of interest. I, unlike a lot of people apparently, enjoy most Netflix Originals. Tau popped up on Netflix one day and I added it to my list to watch later. I pulled up the reviews for this film and was VERY SURPRISED to see the incredibly low ratings. The synopsis just nagged at me and I decided to watch it anyways.Ignore all the terrible reviews and watch it on Netflix! You will not be disappointed. I enjoyed the ending, but at the same time I wish there was more. Hopefully a sequel can be arranged at some point, as I will definitely watch it!

viddyd33 Feels like Ex Machina if it was written by a twelve year-old who read one Isaac Asimov short story and was like, "Ooo! I want to write sci-fi!"I can see how this movie would seem smart and original to people who haven't experienced good sci-fi. It would be like taking candy corn to a remote tribe untouched by mankind and them loving it for its exquisite sweetness. However, anyone who has read more than a couple quality sci-fi books or has adequate experience with the genre will see how weak, unintelligent, contradictory, and overall amateur the screenplay is. Direction is fine, acting is fine, CG is decent, it's just the script that sucks. Here's an example...The main girl's relationship with the AI and her journey of convincing it that it's human and giving it emotions is extremely flawed and doesn't follow any logical or meaningful route to how AI would go from point A to B. It's pretty much, "I'm going to inflict pain on you!" "Wait! You're a person and we're friends!" "Oh, really? Let me break all my instructions and parameters and believe everything you say now." That's just lazy. The security holes in the "AI" would be so bad that they're not even sensible in any stretch of the imagination. Good sci-fi would establish its learning parameters and let her use them to curve it to her will. Instead she just teaches it flatly like a child who takes her every word at face value (with several cutesy montages of then buddying up). Mind you, she knows nothing about it or how it learns while the man who DESIGNED it has absolutely no success in training it back despite his thorough understanding of how it thinks, learns, and operates. Like I said, crappy sci-fi.

XenosVII But then fell apart bit by bit.The premise of Tau is nothing new, but still interesting and it has a philosophical approach. Sadly the movie can't tell it's narrative very well.The story arc is clear by the first 15 minutes of the film - and by this time, it gets exhausting to watch. The script is lousy written and poorly executed. Every step is predictable. Although Maika Monroe does a decent job, there is no build-up and no tension.This movie is completely forgettable - which is a pity for this exciting and fascinating premise.

mukund_mstr Do you hate movies which ignore the most basic of logic and self-set rules, in order to move forward? Then this movies is not for you! It could have made a movie about AI which is defective, it could have been a movie about AI which turns sentient, it could have been a movie about cold hard action and mindless murder. But no! It's none of the above. It's a forgettable hour and a half of about how there is neither meaning nor logic or consistency to machines; by which I mean the writers are too lazy to bother to create interesting or accurate story lines without glaring loop holes. But the acting is top-notch, the concept is fresh and the suspense is real.