This film is being massacred by critics. It's honestly not that bad of a movie. I wouldn't pay $20 to see it in theaters, but it's definitely worth watching at home. Whoever wrote Rose Bryne's lines was hilarious. JEXI had me cracking up and Michael Pena was awesome as usual. Adam Levine held it down but the cell phone stole the show. Check it out.
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Draysan-Jennings30 December 2019
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dan_slentz20 October 2019"Jexi" starring Adam Devine (Modern Family) and Alexandra Shipp. First thing to know is this is NOT a movie for kids under 16. Very adult humor and language. With that said, it's an adult comedy and it's really well done. Jexi is the artificial intelligence in a new smart phone. I give the credit to Kurk Vonnegut's 1950 short story EPICAC about a computer the develops an awareness and even falls in love asked being asked to write love poetry for the inspiration for this movie. We can also give credit to the very cute 1984 movie "Electric Dreams" where a computer is asked to compose music for a man's love interest.. and the computer gets a little too involved.
Unlike EPICAC and "Electric Dreams", "Jexi" is far more raunchy and mischievous. Devine has been great in his film work and doesn't fail to entertain. Shipp is the epitome of the cute love interest (she's an excellent actress, very natural, and stunningly pretty). Wanda Sykes isn't on the screen a lot, but she's her natural "hoot" and oh, so, memorable! Funny lady!! And Michael Peña is also a blast at being Phil's (Devine's) boss in the movie.
Very good adult comedy. If you're easily offended, don't see it. If you think your kid is mature enough to watch it, I'd suggest seeing it first. I'd give this a 6.7. Worth watching! -
greg-goremykin24 December 2019I loathe the newish trend of reviewers giving anything they didn't enjoy with a 1/10 rating. It's making IMDb ratings less and less meaningful I think, and less reliable.
But anyways, when I finished watching this I wasn't sure whether I enjoyed it or not (a strange feeling). I think it wasn't a complete trainwreck, and the actors did as much as they could with a weak script. The direction and technical aspects were fine for a low-budget comedy.
The voice of the OS definitely got nerve-gratingly annoying very quickly, which was a big distraction. There was no comedic timing, and it sounded very dated, like the voice of the computer on the original Star Trek series. But, again, this wasn't the worst movie ever made. I got a few very genuine laughs watching this (a very few laughs, but still). At worst this is a nice meaningless & mindless piece of fluff that doesn't ask much investment of the viewer, or give a whole lot back in return, but I don't feel like I wasted any big part of my life watching it. -
I actually respect this enjoyable little trifle because it never promises or tries to be more than what it is: 80 minutes of mindless fluff/escapism. Sometimes that's all you need.
I live in an EU country where this movie is not scheduled to be shown (if is to be believed, I'd have to go to Hungary to see in it a theatre!). What we normally get from America in our big cinemas are the Hollywood big-budget comic-book/big-name blockbusters. I got coerced into seeing "Ad Astra" and "The Irishman and hated them both.
"Jexi" is SO not my kind of movie! I tend to watch stuff from my country (the cerebral stuff; but we produce our share of crap, too) and our neighbouring countries, most of which is not in English and will never be shown in America except in Art Houses with subtitles.
My favourite English-language films so far this year have been "The Nightingale" (Australia), "The Lighthouse" (Canada?), "Jojo Rabbit" (New Zealand?), and "Official Secrets" (UK).
Most of them are rather dark/brutal (even "Jojo Rabbit" is not all comedy), so "Jexi" was just what I needed: to shut off my brain for 80 minutes. Some of the jokes are laugh-out-loud funny. I particularly liked one about Bernie Sanders. I'd never heard of Adam Devine (some of the reviews here really dislike his previous work; I was surprised to learn that he is 36 and has 63 credits , none of which I have heard of) and thought he did an above-average job with the screen play handed to him.
Not everything can have Anthony Hopkins or Quentin Tarantino or Brad Pitt (wait: maybe everything CAN have Brad Pitt) or Robert DeNiro or Jennifer Lopez or Al Pacino, so these little five-million-dollar-budget movies have their place. Definitely not for everyone! -
ksf-24 October 2022Adam devine (workaholics) is phil, who has a very broken, smashed cell phone. So he gets a new one, and the voice recognition has an evil, bullying, controlling personality. And makes him do silly, embarrassing things. Co-stars alexandra shipp, rose byrne. A couple of fun bits with wanda sykes. It was fun to see the san francisco scenery, having lived there myself in the 1990s, back when apartments were affordable. When phil gets a real girlfriend, jexi becomes jealous. Things to be worked out. Decisions to make. It's entertaining. The story is funny but way over the top. Lots of millenial jokes. Written and directed by jon lucas and scott moore .
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smartypantsz9 October 2022O.k. - all the usual disclaimers, like 'This is no Oscar contender...', etc. Etc., but - this film is fuuuuny. Mr. Devine does a very decent job as the befuddled dork who doesn't know how to handle women, and Rose Byrne's 'Jexi' is absolutely spot on. I mean, seriously. She is fuuuuny. O.k., it's mostly unrealstic in that a gorgeous Alexandra Shipp would fall for such a foot-in-the-mouth dork who has barely any social skills, but the interaction between them, the great San Francisco background, the funny side characters (Michael Pena gets a big nod) make this a very watchable, funny li'l film, definitately worthy of a Netflix watch.
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harry_tk_yung9 March 2020This modern fable has been a long time coming, the story of a generation's addiction to the smart phone. Even when at times taken to absurd proportions (sometimes funny, sometime not so...), the material is quite predictable. One such addict Phil (Adam Devine) has his cell phone knocked off his hand by a passing cyclist. At the store trying to buy a new one, the level-headed salesperson has no qualms about giving him a piece of her mind "You don't need a new phone; you need rehab." That sets the tone of the movie which, clocking at 90 minutes, wisely retains entertainment value before it runs out. The title "Jexi" (voice of Rose Byrne) is the name of the operating system of the phone, omnipotent and omnipresent (with the help of Cloud that embraces us all), claims Phil for her own, but later declares "I am ashamed to be your phone". The trajectory follows Phil's two relationships, with Jexi and with newly met girlfriend Cate (Alexandra Shipp). As mentioned, it is somewhat paint-by-number. Still, the two leads (previously, Devine in a number of not-too-memorable roles and Shipp as the new generation X-men's "Storm") are pleasant enough to make the laughs easy and relaxing. Particularly scene-stealing is Michael Pena's eccentric boss (a "virgin") who manages a media outfit where Phil works as a website listicle man while aspiring to be a real journalist. Two colleagues played by Ron Funches and Charlyne Yu serve their function mandatory sidekick function. The true shinning star of the movie is Rose Byrne who, while not seen on screen, is pitch perfect (no pun intended) in delivering the basically cyborg but slightly human title role.
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ilovemovies20161 June 2020Felt like this movie was missing to much like this is mostly a teen movie not really for adults. I'd say no diffrence in any other teen movie to be honest yet still found myself laughing here and there. But nowhere as much as i though i would if your a young adult or a teenager id recommend this movie but its the same teen film love story as all the others. Though this film has an amazing cast it kind of fell flat on its face for me worth it kind off for a few laughs as its free on amazon prime. I would not pay to rent this movie and also a movie about a mobile phone should have had more of a powerful message than it did. Plus side acting was great some of the punchlines and jokes hit the spot so i'd give it.
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aaquelhasartur7 January 2020This is the weirdest movie I've ever watched. It's not very funny and it tries to teach you some sort of lame lesson. I really didn't like it. Besides it's very cringy.
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Advocate19 October 2022It's actually a funny movie. It's well written and thought provoking when you think about how much of our lives are connected to technology in some form or fashion. It gets a little weird at times, especially when it comes to phone sex, but the cast is able to pull it off. Alexandra Shipp is great in the movie and Adam Devine is having a better year than Adam Levine. It was actually a 2019, so it's been lit for a while. It made 9.3 million at the box office.
Phil has a major dependency issue -- he's addicted to his cellphone. He has no friends and his love life is nonexistent. Forced to upgrade to a new phone, Phil soon learns that the latest model comes with Jexi -- an artificial intelligence life coach, virtual assistant and cheerleader. With its help, he begins to get a real life. But as he becomes less dependent on the phone, Jexi starts to morph into a tech nightmare that's determined to keep Phil all to itself. -
The movie has some good line of thinking but the plot and screen play is worst that one can imagine. It could be better if it as a different time scenario but as you watch further and further, the movie seams like you just had stepped into a parallel universe as it has non real happenings and situations "Normal life dose not work like this".
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ThomDerd21 June 2020Hey to all the ones who want to see something fun and laugh. The main actor Adam Levine is just full of energy and this is a funny film to watch, especially if you are into raunchy humor and films which do not take itselves seriously. The story is contemporary and the addition of Rose Byrne as the voice of AI Jexi is one of the funniest characters voiced . Don't look for script holes and mistakes or for a big meaning in every words of the characters. Just take it for what it is; a funny tech-comedy which will entertain you. This film is actually a tad smarter (just a tad) than you would expect and does present a kind of "problem" for overusing and over-trusting modern tech and smartphones... 8/10.
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sue_yang11 January 2020Smartphone is not as smart as you are even thought there's a 'smart' inside it.
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schreiber-527296 February 2021I wanted to really like the movie and it had good scenes but after getting invested I couldn't turn it off but at all moments I wanted to.
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smiling_happily_guy200211 October 2019This movie is not remotely funny and wastes the time of the audience.
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If, for whatever reason, you're determined to see "Jexi," you'll want to arrive with a backup plan. Life is busy, so it's important to use our time wisely. Perhaps you can mentally balance your checkbook, think through your upcoming schedule, or finally memorize the alphabet backwards. I came up with a long list of all the worthy filmmakers who've been unable to make a second movie, or had to struggle for years just to get their first one onscreen. Although this wasteful effort from the "Bad Moms" team is uninspired in almost every regard, it does advance cinema in a single way: writers-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have figured out how to modernize one of the most traditional and apparently still essential Hollywood tropes: They've even managed to cut out the middle(wo)man, no longer requiring the services of a flesh-and-blood actress to play this depressing fallback of a role.
Granted, Rose Byrne has been hired to do their dirty work. But since she voices the titular virtual assistant, she never had to show up on set and, to her great benefit, no one will even know it's her unless they stay for the credits. (The movie was not screened for critics in advance, and the few other people in my theater left swiftly and silently as it ended.) Adam Devine ("Mike and Dave need wedding dates") plays Phil, a dullard who works for a Buzzfeed-type startup in San Francisco. Isolated and insecure, he spends his days generating click lists along the lines of "Cats that Look Like Ryan Gosling". As soon as his work is done, he goes back home to scroll through other people's social media profiles, eating Chinese take-out while assuming everybody else has it better.
There's an interesting, if obvious, 21st century germ of an idea here. And when Phil's phone breaks, you would be forgiven for assuming we're heading down that path. Nope! Phil just gets another phone, which turns out to house the aforementioned nutcase. As soon as he turns it on, the operating system, called Jexi, begins taking over his life. In Siri fashion, she's supposed to serve as a techno-assistant. Instead she begins as a filthy-mouthed bully and quickly shifts into jealous-shrew mode. Before long, the stalker in his pocket guides Phil into life-threatening traffic, empties his bank account, publicly humiliates him, and demands that they, um, get intimate. (There's a lot of plugging and unplugging of her charger.)
There is no explanation for any of this, nor for the fact that Phil doesn't just get an iPhone (although then we'd have had to sit through some sort of virtual Jexi-Siri catfight). Lucas and Moore seem to believe Jexi's lines are hilarious, since they require us both to hear them and to see them written out on Phil's screen. But there isn't a single witticism among her running slew of angry threats and insults. So we all slog forward, uncomfortably, as the vengeful Jexi end-runs Phil's attempts to impress his cluelessly egocentric boss (Michael Peña), make new friends (Charlyne Yi, Ron Funches), and date cute bike-shop owner Cate (Alexandra Shipp, "X-Men: Apocalypse").
It's hard to imagine how a premise this misguided could have been improved. But the right lead might have made it watchable. Devine plays Phil like a particularly put-upon Jason Bateman character, emphasizing the haplessness while omitting the appeal. The supporting actors do a little better in generating some energy, with Peña working overtime to find humor in a dimly obvious role. (Wanda Sykes shows up as the phone saleswoman, but she looks appropriately disinterested.) San Francisco is shot well by experienced cinematographer Ben Kutchins ("Photograph"), at least. But really, the only saving grace is the charming Shipp, who's good enough to make us wish the movie were about Cate, instead. Unfortunately, there is not one moment when we believe, or even hope, that she would fall for Phil.
The good news is, the movie about a guy's relationship to his OS has already been made, and it happens to be a modern masterpiece. Ask Siri to open "Her" - it's right there on Netflix - and delete this pretender altogether. -
olivewahh16 January 2020The same day I had watched this film, I had watched A.M.I on Netflix (don't watch) and it's the same idea with a smart phone interacting on another level with it's owner and making them do things.
Phil (Adam Devine) is your every day guy, working a steady job, living in a stylish apartment on his own and obsessed with his high tech smart phone, but when his precious phone is accidentally destroyed he purchases a newer model. While activating his new phone, and skipping through the terms and conditions, he discovers that his phone has a voice of it's own like nothing he has experienced which calls herself "Jexi" (voiced by Rose Byrne).
This movie didn't even reach Australian cinemas which says a little something.. The first half started off great, hilarious even, but then when Phil meets his love interest it kinda gets a little annoying. The love interest comes off more controlling than Jexi, for example who would even demand a date to leave their phone at home? She plays the victim in their arguments, and reverses the blame on to Phil trying to make it look like he's in the wrong. I don't know.. She seems like a toxic character that Phil should run away from.
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rgkarim12 October 2019LIKES:
Fast Pace Good Track List Fun Dialogue Great Intermissions Cute Nice Twist Funny Overall
DISLIKES:
Overuse of Cursing Some Inappropriate moments too inappropriate For Me Weaker Storytelling Predictable Spoiled By Trailers at parts
The VERDICT:
Jexi turned out to be better balanced and fun than I imagined, delivering a cute film that was both funny and touching at the same time. I'll admit it's merely a true entertaining festival, with fast pace, fun dialogue, and cute gimmicks that will entertain the masses. Throw in a fun soundtrack to sort of add to comedy elements and toe tapping nature, and again you are having fun in this film. Yet the movie still suffers from the usual tricks of the trade and that is overuse of cursing and inappropriate montages that just aren't my cup of tea. Throw in that that the story is still predictable and the funny parts have some ruining by the trailers and well you get the usual comedy formula for fun and laughs. Jexi is a fun adventure, and one I hope most will go for this weekend if looking for a good laugh. Still, it does not have quite the balance or uniqueness to require a theater visit and most likely best waited for your viewing at home.
My Scores are:
Comedy: 6.5-7.0 Movie Overall: 5.0 -
If you can suspend disbelief Jexi is a cute movie with a cutting - if often heavy-handed critique of human technological reliance, but also a lot of heart. I may be partial because I adore Adam Devine, but I really was sold on this movie, even as someone who tends to be very critical of a movies pretense. Also, who doesn't want to hear Rose Byrne fake-orgasm in an AI/robot-voice?! John Leguizamo is entrancingly watchable as an Elon Musk-Essie Silicon Valley out of touch tech bro-zillionaire.
Also, also, the movie treats you to some really fantastic shots of San Francisco and let's you live a Kid-Cudi concert vicariously, so what is not to love? -
amesprod23 June 2020Just why. This is a cash grab. Not worth it unless offered a large sum of money to make it to the end.
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FeastMode16 March 2020This movie made me laugh a lot. i enjoyed it. i probably won't watch it again. (1 viewing, 3/15/2020)
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tbl-955-2950585 January 2020From the trailer it looked like a movie for my wife who enjoys love movies. She found the movie super boring and that for a love movie is hard to find when it comes to love movies. She would have given it 1 to 2 stars. I give it 4 stars as it made me laugh several times.
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zhiargaming4 January 2020Some reviewers or critics might say we hate this movie because of the tech and the bad language i say they are prude and can't relate to the movie and understand it so they attack it, from my experience and point of view the movie was KING hilarious LOVED Jexi the AI how funny she was and the chemistry between her and the main character the the main character being a nerd not having a life can't talk to girls and Jexi the AI helping him through all that was amazing and funny i relate to this movie and i definitely recommend it was an amazing watch.
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JoBloTheMovieCritic20 October 20197/10 - a good modern comedy that is greatly elevated by the always charismatic Alexandra Shipp
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Philinterr_pted19 January 2020The worst thing about this movie was the music. There's a good premise here. But this movie is so idiotic. The one star is for Michael Peña.