We've all heard the cracks about movies that seem written by AI. Atlas, starring Jennifer Lopez, seems written for AI. Our Atlas review:
Suggesting that a movie was written by AI has already become a tired critical cliché, which therefore means describing, a new science-fiction movie starring Jennifer Lopez, requires additional care.
Lopez plays Atlas Shepherd , a military analyst in the distant future whose colleague General Boothe describes her as “driven and determined,” though Colonel Banks prefers “rigid and hostile.
For the mission, the movie plants Atlas’ combination of old-school anti-robot sentiment into a giant mech-suit . The AI-powered suit, called Smith and voiced by Gregory James Cohan, then doubles as a partner to a skeptical, irritable Atlas as the mission goes sideways, forcing the two-as-one to traverse the planet and find Harlan on their own.
But in a misguided-at-best touch, Atlas doesn’t just learn to appreciate a different life form. She’s pressed – harangued, even! – into allowing her mech-suit full link-up access to her brain and forming, as Smith refers to it with a loftiness the movie doesn’t question, “something greater.”couches all of its human-robot collaboration in a kind of mindless AI boosterism, all the more frustrating because this meeting of the minds primarily results in terrible banter and plasticky action beats.
Perhaps I’m overreacting. After all, the movie’s bad guys are AI, too, inspiring many dramatically blank looks from Liu. But there’s something algorithmically sketchy about a movie that sells human-AI brain fusion as a kind of level-up convenience.
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