Well it's big budget sci-fi about AI, Netflix (uh oh) and Jenny from the block, what could possibly go wrong... a few things actually, but it's NOT as bad as anticipated.
The bizarrely much maligned Lopez stars as 'Atlas', an orphaned AI nerd/data analyst who is on a dangerous mission to find a 'familiar' rogue AI robot who has fled to another planet and plans to seek revenge on us evil humans back on Earth. After a disastrous landing on his bleak outpost hideout it's J-Lo and her (Robocop) life support robot against the world in order to save it... the question is can she do so or are we all doomedddddd like Elon Musk's space program to colonise Mars...
It's a strange one this. The script is pretty good (especially with all the mad AI tech going on right now) but the execution is questionable. Lopez is decent but the hefty dialogue is corny and her ridiculous amount of screentime is ott (as is her wayward afro hairstyle). The sfx are pretty good but the movies look is too clean and shiny. All the juxtapostions are very frustrating.
Overall then Atlas fails to match its lofty ambition of emulating the likes of T2, Aliens and Robocop which it heavily draws from, while J-Lo clearly wants to be Ripley but isn't. However, it's still worth a one-watch with brain parked in neutral and bucket of popcorn to hand... just keep an eye on that Robot vacuum roaming around your house!
The bizarrely much maligned Lopez stars as 'Atlas', an orphaned AI nerd/data analyst who is on a dangerous mission to find a 'familiar' rogue AI robot who has fled to another planet and plans to seek revenge on us evil humans back on Earth. After a disastrous landing on his bleak outpost hideout it's J-Lo and her (Robocop) life support robot against the world in order to save it... the question is can she do so or are we all doomedddddd like Elon Musk's space program to colonise Mars...
It's a strange one this. The script is pretty good (especially with all the mad AI tech going on right now) but the execution is questionable. Lopez is decent but the hefty dialogue is corny and her ridiculous amount of screentime is ott (as is her wayward afro hairstyle). The sfx are pretty good but the movies look is too clean and shiny. All the juxtapostions are very frustrating.
Overall then Atlas fails to match its lofty ambition of emulating the likes of T2, Aliens and Robocop which it heavily draws from, while J-Lo clearly wants to be Ripley but isn't. However, it's still worth a one-watch with brain parked in neutral and bucket of popcorn to hand... just keep an eye on that Robot vacuum roaming around your house!
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