I'm a huge Alex Garland fan and have been since I read The Beach when I was 15. Since then I've made a point of consuming everything he is involved with and have never been disappointed. That said, I was initially put off by the early low rating of Devs so I put it on the back burner (I wasn't ready to be disappointed yet). They I watched Men, which I absolutely hated so I quickly fired up Devs and it renewed my faith.
Devs is clever, stylish and darkly menacing, which is where Alex Garland really shines. Devs harks back to the the on-edge,technologically advanced nature of Ex Machina and the constant questioning of one's mortality and reality that came with his novel, The Coma, whilst also taking us on a fantastically futuristic and baffling sci-fi journey, similar to Annihilation.
Devs feels like a culmination of Garlands work and the only thing I feel is negative about this is that I believe he may have peaked. This is evident (to me, at least) with the project that followed Devs (Men (2022)).
Devs is clever, stylish and darkly menacing, which is where Alex Garland really shines. Devs harks back to the the on-edge,technologically advanced nature of Ex Machina and the constant questioning of one's mortality and reality that came with his novel, The Coma, whilst also taking us on a fantastically futuristic and baffling sci-fi journey, similar to Annihilation.
Devs feels like a culmination of Garlands work and the only thing I feel is negative about this is that I believe he may have peaked. This is evident (to me, at least) with the project that followed Devs (Men (2022)).