Alex Garland’s ‘Ex Machina’ Gets A Gorgeous New Trailer

Briefly: This looks so freaking good.

Somehow (despite being a huge fan of 28 Days Later, Sunshine, AND Dredd) Alex Garland’s directorial debut, Ex Machina somehow slipped under my radar until I saw a few post-SXSW reviews. A new trailer for the film has just hit the web, and wow, wow, wow, does this look good.

Did it slip you by too? Here’s the synopsis:

Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.

Sounds pretty neat, right. Now check out this visually spectacular trailer.

Ex Machina goes wide on April 10th, and I really can’t wait to see it. How about you?