Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

brantliu This compatibility simulation apparently depends on the calculation of the probability that a simulated couple choose to ignore a rigid matchmaking system that's designed to break them apart to eventually be with each other. However, this couple, in reality, relies on the statistic from this simulation to know each other's compatibility and that result also informs subsequent actions. These two contradictory conditions are so subtly put together around one single plot line. It seems to be inconsistent; yet, it also makes so much sense given what we do in real life. We desire to be free; however, we seek to define a more convenient way of being truly free. In this case, this couple believes that, in order to find the most compatible love, the most reliable way is to use an inherently limiting online dating app that runs simulations evaluating the combined willingness of a couple to break free from predetermined dating rules to eventually be with each other. We desire so strongly that our love affairs are to be free from external rules. At the same time, we contemplate our subsequent actions in our love lives based on the results from computer simulations which are inevitably embedded with certain external rules. Ironically, these rules are framed around the concept of being free from rigid rules. So, the questions arise: Can love be determined by statistical compatibility? Are we truly free? Can we indeed be free, and how? Can the extent of freedom be evaluated with specific standards? Do the underlying rules of such an evaluation undermine the freedom itself? How do we derive our actions to peruse liberty if guidance on how to be free should not exist for the seek of the consistency? These questions are further complicated with the rapid technological advancement because us, modern human, are used to derive false hope from technology. What "technology" is to us is like what "religion" meant for our ancestors. However, technology is still unable to solve problems in our arbitrary lives. In facts, it adds a new layer to it. This episode is subtle but thought-provoking. That's why I feel this episode is quintessentially Black-Mirror despite the overwhelmingly romantic theme.

demilung Hey, what if your dating app used Inside Out style real people running gauntlet challenges to find your perfect match? Wouldn't that be neat?That's just it. Again, no controversy, no dilemmas, no nothing. It's basically a "strange game" type story in which you introduce your characters into a game with set rules and let them play it out. Like Battle Royale, or Danganronpa, or Hunger Games or any other. The appeal in this story lies in people imagening how they would handle this scenario. And this time the final reveal completely negates everything the story. Nothing of this matters, there is nothing to think about, it's just a pointless romantic story.

classicsoncall As a love story, I think this one works because the principal characters resolved in the end to be with each other, but I think anyone watching should be troubled by the inherent finality offered by a technology that seems to be accepted as unerring and inviolate. The episode speaks to how much faith younger generations place in 'others' to do the thinking for them so that they don't have to make decisions. We see this present day in the mindless desire to put government in charge of curing all ills, when it really falls to informed individuals to make the right decisions for themselves. There's some inconsistency in the writing as the story plays out. For example, with all the security personnel in place to insure 'couples compliance', why is 'The Wall' designed to have a ladder that allows people to go over it? I can't think of reason for that that would make sense; maybe we weren't supposed to think about it. It also bothered me that Amy (Georgina Campbell) and Frank (Joe Cole) engaged in sexual relationships with their programmed hook-ups when they had no desire for them. OK, I get it, but the whole point was for them to understand their true feelings for each other. I'm actually surprised there was no opt-out provision on those programmed monitors that would allow incompatible couples to break off the timed arrangement sooner. You could require the couples to tap at the same time like they did to find out how long their courtship would last. Simple enough I would think.One might think that my comments suggest I didn't care for the episode. It was okay as far as it goes, but I'm not going to get starry eyed about the whole thing like I see in a lot of the reviews here for it. The whole concept of having things done for you as if you didn't have a mind of your own is really what bothers me about the story. There's always that little bit of something that a technology can't translate properly for it's intended user. If it could, we wouldn't have hundreds of different dating websites.

theflash1970 Love story, we get it. But this episode has nothing to do with Black mirror. AT ALL.Thought Crocodile is the worst till I have seen this.