A Brief History
On August 1, 2026, American science fiction erotic thriller film Soulm8te was released on digital platforms by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in the United States of America.
Digging Deeper
Not surprisingly, this film is in the same movie universe as another recent film warning about the dangers of AI, M3GAN, along with other cinematic cautionary tales such as West World, The Stepford Wives, and the like. Our hapless, lovelorn hero, David, played by David Rysdahl (he of television and recent movie experience) works for a company experimenting with creating commercial companion androids, as usual as movies go, highly attractive virtual sex-bots. David gets to be a test subject as owner/master of a particularly alluring bot, and trouble soon commences with the out of control AI unleashed when David goes against the instructions and disables a safeguard against runaway AI thought/adaptation. (Predictable, but making for an exciting and scary movie, nonetheless.)
Australian actress Lily Sullivan plays the “fem-bot” fatale to a cinematic “T”, beautiful and yet deadly and terrifying at the same time. Rated “R” for violence and sexual content, Soulm8te is a direct to digital release streaming courtesy of Universal, although we believe the film really deserved a proper theater release as the quality of all aspects of the movie are up to first class industry standards.
As you can infer by our positive statements above, we loved all 99 minutes of the movie and believe you will, too!
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