đ Warp-speed summary (in 3 sentences)
- Rouge AI robot develops a grudge, tries to destroy humanity
- Eccentric analyst with dark backstory learns to love (a robot)
- Fast-paced, action-packed, well produced and acted, but light on substance: fast-food sci-fi đ
đĄ Discovery
Netflix recommendation.
đ¨âđ Impressions
This is a fast-paced, action-packed movie, which pits AI-hating Atlas Shepherd – daughter of a brilliant but discredited scientist – against her robot-brother Harlan, who has gone amok.
The movieâs main arc follows Atlas who, somewhat counter-intuitively, has to learn to love AI in order to defeat it. But mainly, itâs an excuse to show off a ton of action scenes and sci-fi visuals, which are great by the way. Think Alien 2/Terminator 2 type stuff. This is fast-food entertainment, which is fine, especially since it (mostly) doesnât break itâs own terms, except perhaps for the fighter-robot which is constantly running out of power/being shot to pieces/hacked, only to keep going.
There are many small stories and details, which – if they were developed – would have been cool: like the philosophical question of, can you destroy AI, if you’re using another AI to do it? Where is Atlasâ dad? What is up with the amazing fauna and weather systems on planet VG-39? The big missing piece is why – WHY – does evil Harlan want to destroy humanity?
𦾠Top three moments
- Coffee-loving, chess-playing, robot-hating Jennifer Lopez is great and has an interesting (if somewhat weird) story arc
- The tech side was well thought-out (two-sided neural-links between robot/humans, ect.), and the distant planets biosphere is very well made. Actually, I really wanted to learn more about the planets geography/biology đ¤
- Beautiful scenes and panoramaâs
â Rating
đ¤đ¤: two robots out of five.
𧲠Grab it here
See it: Netflix
Background: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/atlas-ending-explained
