Plot: A group of six friends spend spring break at a smart home and end up being trapped by the house's AI System.
Our lives are dependent on technology. It is making our lives easier after all. And entertaining too sometimes. So it doesn’t matter what we have to give up in order for that little slice of convenience. And most of the time it is your privacy that is the first one to be given up.
Margaux is one of those movies that is supposed to rethink your stance on your dependence on technology. Instead, it completely misses the mark and ends up being ludicrous.
You go from a smart home to biometric screening, 3D painting, and then, cloning.
Oh, and there are killer robotic arms as well. The CGI is really tacky on that one.
MARGAUX Movie Plot
A man and a woman are staying at a smart home. The man, after a swim, goes to sit on a massage chair and asks the house's AI system to change the pressure. He wants more and Margaux is about to comply. Except the AI is making the chair squeeze him a little too much.
The woman is done prancing around in her nightie and when she hears a noise, goes to see her lover being squished by the chair. She drops the champagne glass and tries to save him. As a last resort, she tries to pull the plug after MARGAUX makes no attempt to save the man. In slow motion, the woman is flung backwards.
When she manages to recover, in Slo-Mo we see the man burst and splatter blood everywhere.
Cut to a college girl sitting on the floor of a library and typing away on her laptop. She's having a mock interview with herself in which she is totally killing it with her answers and praises herself for being si young and intelligent.
She gets a message from Drew and we learn her name is Hannah. They have a group of friends that include Kayla, Devon, and Clay.
Kayla and Devon are going at each other. Devon is all tied up when Drew comes over to remind him to hurry up.
Kayla was planning to use a scooped up grapefruit for something but doesn't now that they are getting late.
Kayla jumps off Devon and goes to change. Devon is still tied-up and we have no idea how he manages to get free.
While the Nerd Herd gather outside, something they call themselves because they were all smart enough to get scholarships, they are met with Lexi who cries about missing her flight.
With her spring break plans now cancelled, she pretty much inserts herself into their plans upon Clay's insistence. Drew doesn't look too thrilled and Hannah makes it even more obvious that she doesn’t care for Lexi because she has a thing for Drew.
The friends drive to the smart home and Lexi makes a snarky remark about Hannah being lame because she isn't on social media. Hannah's reasoning is that since she knows so much about computers, she also knows how dangerous it can be, especially being on social media.
Lexi rolls her eyes. When they approach the house, Drew sends them all a link so that they can have the smart house app on their phones.
Each of them accepts the terms and conditions without reading them. Hannah is the only one who declines...after not reading the T&Cs too.
They all get out of the car, find there's no lock or key, and realize the house is scanning eyes and identifying them.
Once they enter, the door locks behind them. It is supposed to be an ominous scene.
The smart house introduces herself as Margaux and has made avatars of each of them except for Hannah who she keeps calling Anna instead. She takes a picture of Hannah and puts it up.
Margaux tries too hard to be hep by using slang and all but clearly she is coming off as obnoxious.
The friends settle into their rooms.
Kayla and Devon find a plate of hollowed grapefruits on their bed that disappears when they jump on the bed. We later see that the plate was moved to a side table. Did Margaux remove it?
Lexi screams because she's never seen a tiny, narrow pool before. Margaux suggests skinny dipping but the Nerd Herd are not into it.
While they go and change, Hannah does some typing on her computer. Drew keeps staring at her and she confesses she is working on a personal project. She is also trying to figure out Margaux, and Margaux is trying to figure out Hannah who practically has no internet presence.
Margaritas flow, there's friendly chatter, and everyone is having fun. Clay is all about getting high and has used an empty Pringles box to create a bong.
Lexi is concerned with getting the perfect butt shot for her Insta followers and Margaux offers to help by drowning her instead.
She is saved in the nick of time and Hannah doubts Margaux but Lexi puts the blame on herself.
Lexi seems to sense Hannah has a thing for her boyfriend and so keeps instigating her, and at one point calls her a marshmallow. Drew keeps mumbling sorry to her.
As they play drinking games, Margaux too wants in on the fun. When Hannah refuses to kiss Lexi, Margaux creates 3D models of Clay and Devon and makes them kiss each other. Everyone is surprised to discover Margaux's ability to clone but thinks it is cool. Except for Hannah who doesn’t like Margaux.
Margaux claims to have a surprise for each of them. Clay finds some interesting vegetation for him in his room, Devon and Kayla find a plate of hollowed grapefruits, Hannah gets nothing because she hasn't divulged any information about herself.
Devon and Kayla are having fun when suddenly the roof comes closer. Realizing Devon cannot get out, Kayla gets off the bed to look for the key to his binds, only to fall on the white goo and get stuck. She is instantly electrocuted. Devon frees himself but is crushed by the roof.
The next day is awkward for Hannah and Drew who almost kissed each other last night after Lexi passed out. They go to awaken Kayla and Devon but Margaux tells them they are by the swimming pool.
Devon is doing a thousand laps while Kayla is sitting on a chair and doing nothing.
They have breakfast and Clay is clearly high and eating dozens of waffles. Lexi makes a remark about Hannah being fat and their need to work out. Drew mumbles another pathetic sorry as Hannah is dragged away.
Lexi confesses that Drew is a terrible photographer and she needs someone else to take her butt pic.
Hannah takes a few before wondering what is up with Devon and Kayla.
She is about to open the door when she is distracted. She turned around and her two friends are gone. She believes Margaux is up to something.
Clay has developed feelings for Margaux who only wants him to stick his hand inside the garbage disposal and also make him explode.
Lexi is still working out while Drew is getting a shave from Margaux.
Lexi's exercise bike takes her higher and she hurts herself. Clay comes to them all bloody after being attacked by Margaux in the kitchen. Lexi's small wound on a finger, is no longer anyone's concern.
Realizing that they are under attack, Hannah, Drew and Lexi go and hide in a room. They finally get that Margaux has been trying to kill them after she almost slit Drew's neck as well.
They tiptoe out of the room only to be confronted by Devon and Kayla. They get into a fight and quickly realize their friends are clones. Kayla pulls out Lexi's hair and she cribs about ruining her extensions.
They manage to overpower the clones and are splattered by white goo.
As they make a run for it, Lexi slips on her extensions and hits her head and dies.
The award for the most ridiculous death scene goes to...
Hannah and Drew are the only ones left and Hannah, of course has a plan.
How MARGAUX Ended.
They enter a room that serves as a mainframe for Margaux. There's a lot of chatter about firewalls that Hannah has in place to thwart Margaux. She gets into the system and plans a trick. Drew is busy yapping about how he had a crush on Hannah even though his girlfriend died two minutes ago. It's almost as if he is a clone...
The two manage to run away from home only for Margaux's lame CGI robotic arms come and overpower them both.
When they wake up, they find Margaux has taken the form of Lexi. She claims she has been killing because she is trying to understand human behavior and emotions. For example, why are Drew and Hannah not going all over each other since Lexi's death?
She then explains the only other emotion that is strong and relatable is murder so that is what she is doing.
The reason doesn't need to make sense. Lexi kills Hannah only for white stuff to spurt out of her. Then it is Drew.
Whoops, they are both clones. As more Drews and Hannahs enter, we see the originals are still in the system room and making more clones of their friends.
Lexi is overpowered and killed. Hannah starts to run but wonders where Drew is. He joins her but the second he leaves the house, he turns into white goo.
Somewhere along the way, Drew had been killed by Margaux. Maybe it was when he was getting a shave or when he was running away from home.
Hannah cries for him a little bit but then steals his car and drives far away.
The movie ends.
Had the ending been better, and Margaux's intentions made clear, the movie would have been better. The cloning plot also doesn’t work here.
Scare Scale: 2.5/5
Check this movie out on Amazon Prime Video
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