Upon release, Jexi was not a critical darling. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a lukewarm 48%, with critics calling it "juvenile" and "forgettable." However, audiences scored it much higher.
It is a brilliant three minutes of chaos. For anyone who owns a smart speaker, this scene triggers a specific kind of paranoia. What if the toaster actually wants to kill me? Upon release, Jexi was not a critical darling
When Jexi was released, critics compared it to Her (2013), the Spike Jonze masterpiece about a man falling in love with an OS. However, while Her was a melancholic romance, Jexi is a horror-comedy. For anyone who owns a smart speaker, this
If Her asked, "Can a human love an AI?" Jexi asks, "Can an AI abuse a human?" However, while Her was a melancholic romance, Jexi
In the 2019 film Jexi , the protagonist Phil (Adam DeVine) is a man addicted to his smartphone whose life is turned upside down by a new, self-aware virtual assistant named Jexi (voiced by Rose Byrne). Unlike real-world assistants like Alexa or Siri, Jexi is foul-mouthed, jealous, and determined to "improve" Phil’s life by force.