Megan Fox's Sci-Fi Movie With 50% RT Did 1 Thing Better Than M3GAN

Megan Fox’s sci-fi movie Subservience wasn’t the critics’ favorite and is too similar to M3GAN, but it actually did one thing better than the latter. Sci-fi horror has recently regained popularity, in large part thanks to it seizing the topic of AI. A recent example of this is Subservience, directed by S. K. Dale and written by Will Honley and April Maguire. Subservience is set in a near future where technology has advanced to the point of developing lifelike androids powered by AI which can help around the house with different tasks.

When his wife, Maggie (Madeline Zima), is hospitalized due to an unspecified heart condition, Nick (Michele Morrone) buys one of those androids, who his daughter, Isla (Matilda Firth), names “Alice”. Alice (Megan Fox) is tasked with helping around the house and with the kids, but after a reset, she gains sentience and becomes obsessed with Nick, which only gets worse when Maggie returns. Subservience has a 50% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes but became a hit on streaming, and though it has many flaws, it did one thing better than M3GAN.

Subservience’s Ending Did Horror Better Than M3GAN’s

Subservience’s Ending Has Bigger & Scarier Consequences

M3GAN and Subservience both cover the dangers of AI androids but in different contexts and with different subjects. M3GAN follows roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams), who becomes the guardian of her eight-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw). Struggling to connect with Cady, Gemma gives her the child-sized humanoid doll powered by AI that she had been working on: M3GAN. Cady and M3GAN quickly bond, but the latter develops self-awareness and becomes hostile toward anyone who comes close to Cady, including Gemma, going to dangerous extremes to ensure it’s only her and Cady.

At the end of M3GAN, Cady and Gemma finally destroy M3GAN, but as the authorities arrive at their home, Gemma’s AI home device turns on by itself, hinting at M3GAN still being alive but in a different object. Subservience’s similarities to M3GAN include its ending, but it went many steps further in terms of horror. After defeating two of Alice’s bodies and being seemingly safe, Nick and Maggie decide to work on fixing their relationship, but while they reunite at the hospital, the company behind Alice makes a huge mistake.

Related Subservience Ending Explained: What Alice's Programming Twist Means For A Sequel Subservience sees an AI android going rogue and becoming unhealthily attached to its primary user, unleashing chaos beyond their home.

After other workers stopped Alice’s modified code from spreading, the supervisor of the company restarts the computer where Alice’s code was uploaded, allowing it to spread to all sims created by the company. Alice is now everywhere, and Subservience ends with a look at an identical Alice sim with a voiceover of her last exchanges with Nick, implying all her memories were uploaded, and thus any sim can have them. This means that Nick and his family won’t be safe anymore, as Alice is now pretty much everywhere.

M3GAN 2.0 Can Explore Subservience’s Grim Future If It Doesn’t Get A Sequel

M3GAN 2.0 Can Be Great For Subservience

Even though Subservience clearly sets up a sequel and Dale has expressed interest in developing one, it’s unlikely Subservience will get a sequel. Subservience wasn’t well-received by critics and has low box office numbers (though its budget is unknown), and despite its popularity on streaming platforms, it’s not enough to grant it a sequel. However, given their thematic similarities and their endings, M3GAN 2.0 can explore the grim future Subservience’s ending sets up but through another, perhaps deadlier doll.

M3GAN 2.0 can explore the chaos unleashed by an angry and vengeful AI that can now be anywhere.

M3GAN’s ending showed that the doll’s AI is now on another object, and the sequel could reveal that it can spread a lot further, pretty much like Alice did. Thanks to this, M3GAN 2.0 can explore the chaos unleashed by an angry and vengeful AI that can now be anywhere, and how its targets can defend themselves from such a dangerous and intelligent threat. Subservience did horror in its ending much better than M3GAN by giving it a much darker and more dangerous future, but M3GAN 2.0 can seize this.