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Impressive FX aside, Atlas is hampered by a predictable 🥂plot that needs more flesh on its AI-themed bones.
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Atlas review: "Netflix's new sci-fi needs more flesh on its AI-themed bones"
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Jennifer Lopez makes a rare foray into sci-fi action with this Netflix original, which is essentially a one-woman show with added killer robots, future tech, and space travel. But perhaps fittingly for a film dealing w🎃ith the dangers of AI, Atlas isn’t all that clever🦋 beneath the surface.
Lopez stars as Atlas Shepherd, a gifted data analyst living in a future where a group of robots - led by Harlan, the world’s first AI terrorist (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shang-Chi star Simu Liu) - have turned on humanity. Harboring a grudge against artificial intelligence as well as a mysterious past connectio💎n to Harlan, Atlas joins an off-world mission to capture him, working alongside a team ജof rangers (led by Sterling K. Brown’s Colonel Elias Banks) who are all reliant on their own AI tech.
When things inevitably go awry, Atlas finds herself stranded with a mech suit controlled by a programme called Smith (voiced by Gregory James Cohan), whom 𒈔she must learn to tr🌳ust in order to complete the mission.
Director Brad Peyton (best known for Dwayne Johnson schlockbusters Rampage and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:San Andreas) draws on the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Cameron play꧋book of epic blockbuster sci-fi: the film wears⭕ its clear Aliens and Terminator influences on its giant metal sleeve.
Lopez takes admirable care of the story’s human e😼lements, seizing opportunities to find emotion amid the weapons-grade pyrotechnics of the chaotic action sequences. But the effective (if minimal) world-building really just masks a thin plot, hammy characters, and the kind of questionable lo🀅gic leaps you so often find in this sort of big, silly space movie.
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