Mute vs Wifelike
Wifelike has the higher audience score (6.7/10 against 5.6/10 for Mute). Wifelike is the shorter watch at 1h 46m compared with 2h 6m. Mute is the older of the two (2018 against 2022). Both are mystery, science fiction, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mute
Wifelike| Mute | Wifelike | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.6/10 | ★ 6.7/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2022 |
| Length | 2h 6m | 1h 46m |
| Genres | Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller | Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Duncan Jones | James Bird |
| Main cast | Robert Sheehan, Justin Theroux, Sam Rockwell, Paul Rudd, Dominic Monaghan | Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Elena Kampouris, Agam Darshi, Doron Bell, Sara Sampaio |
Synopsis
Mute
A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.
Wifelike
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the programming of the artificial human assigned as his companion to behave like his late wife. She begins to question her reality as memories of a past life begin to surface in a world where nothing is as it seems.