'Atlas' A Review

Atlas is a scifi action movie set in a vague future after the events of an AI uprising with the threat still looming. Atlas(Jennifer Lopez) an analyst with ties to the AI leader Harlan(Simu Liu) accompanies some space marines led by Elias(Sterling K. Brown) on a mission to a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy where the AI army has fled and regrouped.

Lopez is a talent, that's never changed, but the material here isn't up to snuff. She's serviceable in the way this kind of hack, derivative, obvious script is serviceable, in line with Netflix's increasing gravity of mediocrity. She's not bad but she's not particularly good either. Liu is kind of sleep walking through the part. Brown is the only one to really breathe any life into his character, he puts in considerable effort to make the character funny and have some modicum of dimension. Overall the cast is fine but within the trappings of this extremely by-the-numbers movie there's not much they can do.

The movie looks decent, the robots, the spaceships, the faraway planet most of the action takes place on- the CGI is pretty good. But ultimately there's just not much life in the project. Another entry in Netflix's brand of just-watchable-enough-not-to-turn-off approach to features.

A movie about AI that was seemingly AI generated. Bland. Diet Terminator.

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