‘Foe’ Review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Are Too Magnetic to Be Mired in All This Dystopian Murk

‘Foe’ Review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Star in a Muddled Dystopian Replicant Love Triangle

The Paul Mescal character in "Foe" is in for a big surprise. So is the audience. The trouble with the movie is that once you’re confronted with the surprise, and you think back over what you’ve been watching, it makes even less sense.

Foe review – Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan can’t lift dull Black Mirror knock-off

The stars try to save a familiar slab of sci-fi pondering involving a robotic replacement for a husband, but it’s not enoughIn the year 2065, water and fertile land are precious resources. The US midwest, ravaged by heat and drought, is sparsely populated and barren. Also, new technology allows AI to create sentient, indistinguishable copies of humans.Such are the opening facts, delivered in title cards, of Foe, starring Paul Mescal and Saoirse …

‘Foe’ Review: Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan’s Marriage Is Threatened by A.I. Replacements in Smart but Stilted Sci-Fi Chamber Piece

Set in 2065, Garth Davis’ “Foe” begins with some introductory text about the invention of A.I. “simulants” that are indistinguishable from human beings, which immediately prepares us for the idea that one or all of the three characters in this smart but stifling chamber piece might be swapped out for a perfect double at some point. And yet, that crucial bit of background info doesn’t seem to become relevant to this story for a curiously long tim…

‘Foe’ Review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Are Too Magnetic to Be Mired in All This Dystopian Murk

Garth Davis directs Amazon's psychological sci-fi 'Foe,' a dystopian love story starring Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre.