“Don’t Look Deeper” (** out of four) was a generic sci/fi melodrama about a typical disaffected teenager (Helena Howard) who begins to suspect she’s something less-than-human and begins to uncover various factions of artificial intelligence that have rumblings involving everyone around her. Sincere performance from Howard can’t enliven tired proceedings combining teenage angst and futuristic intelligence. Director Catherine Hardwicke (“Thirteen”, “Twilight”) once again shows her empathic connection to youth and outcasts but don’t look for much “deeper” than that here.

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