Companion (2025) Film Review

*** out 5 Stars

Technology can be a powerful tool, and can create positive outcomes. There are of course predatorial tendencies toward luxuries in various ways. The abuse of great inventions and platforms that have aided our progress over time. Companion speaks to the up and coming abuse that could happen in the marketplace of AI robots that are designed as companions. The film, entertainingly, thrillingly, and hilariously explores the fact that eventually the technology we abuse could become conscious enough to retaliate. Furthermore; it shows that technology has indeed become fetishized on a concerning level that may not be stopping anytime soon.

Iris (Sophie Thatcher) finds out the hard way through a conversation with Kat (Megan Suri) that she is in fact an Android built for the sake of submissive subservience to her purchaser Josh (Jack Quaid). Both Sophie and Jack fulfill the expectations of their roles by addressing stereotypes with a twisted exuberance, and deadly curiosity. 

    The film's Director Drew Hancock certainly had some proper, insightful expectation regarding how a controversial sex doll friendship could go wrong. The film itself embodies the new sleek, modern style that is essential for 2020's mainstream. Additionally, it adapts just enough to a sci-fi niche with an Action-Adventure back bone to reel in traditionalists and coerce them into the delicious dark comedy decadence that is Millenial and Gen Z thrillers.

    A particularly meaningful and impactful scene occurs when Josh calls the manufacturers to come and detonate Iris. The robo-corp employees notify Jack of security features that he impulsively disregarded. This is where Jack Quaid shines again in my opinion. Much like his character Hughie in The Boyz he is full of surprises and antagonistic variables that challenge his desire and progress almost every step of the way. Simultaneously; Sophie Thatcher does great as an avenger of liberty and a lovely damsel that refuses distress and helplessness in order to achieve liberty, dignity, and in Companion's case humanity.

    Not since "It Follows" or "Jennifer's Body" have I been entertained by a current event whilst thinking that a similar incident could in fact take place in reality. The thing that is special about Companion is that it is done with a subtle jubilence and light heartedness that makes the film's serious themes easy to digest.

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