Atlas Review



Atlas reviewed by Matt Donato. Now streaming on Netflix.
Atlas earns more than a shrug, even if it won’t settle relevant and alarming debates about artificial intelligence’s place in contemporary society. Brad Peyton oversees a futuristic action thriller that frequently plays like a clone of other cautionary tales about AI – but those movies, shows, games, and books don’t have Peyton’s secret weapon: Jennifer Lopez. She’s able to command the screen, bicker with software programs, and sell a convincing heroine’s arc from behind a mech-suit’s windshield. Atlas is far from the “Justice for AI!” disaster its premise implies, and while it’s not the next groundbreaking sci-fi epic, it earns points for building an entertaining, adequately executed movie around a hot-button topic.

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40 thoughts on “Atlas Review”

  1. AI plays its roll better than JL, its max 3/10, very stiff acting, from zero to hero in few minutes, also the villain like textbook step by step bad guy. A movie to watch when you have absolutly nothing do to.

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  2. Antagonist flees to Andromeda Galaxy 2.537 million light years away.

    The fastest Star Trek ship would take 100,000 years to get there.

    In the movie human ships can get there instantly!

    OK, so humans can get to the 200 billion planets in the Milky Way instantly AND the planets in far away Andromeda.

    Cool.

    So how is the plot that the bad guy wants to blow up the Earth which will kill 99.5% of all humans????????

    I'm sorry, the local bus can take you to the (presumably) thousands of human colonies in the Milky Way, if not Andromeda galaxy so HOW does blowing up one ball of dirt (even if it is 'home') kill 99.9% of humans???????????

    Or………… Just like Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes they needed a science advisor with at least year 10 qualifications.

    Look your movie IS NOT BROKEN if the baddie has a base on one of Jupiter's moons. Then the threat of blowing the Earth might actually mean something. That is humanity would not have spread to multiple planets, sorry star systems, sorry arms of the milky way, sorry entire galaxies. You get the point!!!!!!

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  3. In the somewhat beginning you get to hear a female Ai robot mouth off about her preferable pronouns 😢
    Sounded very 2022 and it's supposed to be fare enough in the future we're we have every day space travel.

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