You, sir, clearly have no understanding of character motivation or even basic human emotion!
I don't think it was quite as bad as you think it was, but it definitely wasn't as good as I hoped. And I didn't exactly go in with high expectations. They were shot down when the trailer for the movie revealed roughly 90% of the plot.
I ended up enjoying this film a lot, I don't think it's nearly as stupid as people have been saying and I don't really think your plotholes are holes at all. She's in the most confusing period of her life, she doesn't know if her husband is alive or dead, she has no-one to talk to, no-one who will support her. She doesn't want to piss Will off by not believing in him but she's also scared that if it's not will then she's entirely within it's power. 'I love you, and I'm scared you'll kill me'. Would you speak freely?
As for the terrorists. I thought at first they were motivationless (particularly in terms of their tech level) but the film spent it's entire running time making their case. For the first time ever, the jobs of the intelligentsa will be at risk. At every point in history there has been a lash back whenever machines try to replace humans and do you think scientists are going to feel any better than that than everyone else when their time really comes? One or two maybe, but the rest will act just like the rest of mankind, they'll be scared because someones taking away what is theirs.
When the factories came people blew them up and burned them down. That's where the word 'luddite' comes from, not from some doofus but from people taking incredibly violent action against the machines and things threatening their livelihood. So that's why you've got a bunch of terrorists who can hack and lay their hands on serious tech.
And one of the big messages of the film was 'look how scary this is, to try and trust something so much more intelligent and powerful than you.' Technology changes so fast once you hit the singularity it's miraculous... and miracles are scary. The whole film was saying 'Look how amazing this is! And doesn't it creep you out?'
I don't think the film was well put together. It keeps trying to change tone from 'wondrous' to 'scary' so often in every scene that it ultimately ends up just being a confusing mess. But I think the ideas it was pushing and the emotion behind them was interesting and well done
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Enough plotholes to drop a planet into.
If you know anything about science, this movie will have you laughing or shuddering the whole way through. Everything about it varies between almost and entirely nonsense. There are so very many better ways it could have been done...it will leave you either shaking your head in horror, or mentally rifftracking the entire thing as you're watching it.
Even worse, the characters are bad. Anyone who knows anything about writing knows that people have reasons for why they do things. Why do the terrorists do things? Because they're fanatical. Okay, I guess we can work with that. Why does Will do things? To make Eve happy. Alright, that's a good enough reason, I guess. Why does EVE do things?
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She's supposed to be a fairly decent scientist. So why doesn't she just ask Will why he's doing things? Why doesn't she voice her opinion? She's supposed to love this man, didn't they ever have arguments? Didn't they ever critique each other? They're scientists, for pete's sake, there's supposed to be some sort of actual science going on here, not just people doing things and staring at each other wondering why nobody can read their mind.
Honestly? This movie is almost(though it's iffy) worse than twilight. It gets points for potential, but no points for actually achieving anything.
2/10