Film: Atlas Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K Brown, Lana Parrilla, Mark Strong, Abraham Popoola Director: Brad Peyton Rating: 1.5 Runtime: 118 min This sci-fi actioner has far more tech-mech portions than heart. The writers latch on to the current concern regarding AI.
What happens if AI is developed to a point where humans become totally expendable? In this film the story has AI deciding that the only way to stop the war is to end humanity. So the future of computers becomes grist for action cinema. Don’t know much about the science here but what transpires doesn’t make much logical sense.
ADVERTISEMENT The film employs a large amount of visual effects and barely few actors of which takes the lead and Mark Strong gets a much smaller role. The screenplay by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite feels very derivative and borrowed. The film details the story of a woman, (Jennifer Lopez) who is described as anti-social.
Her intel which was passed on to her by her deceased scientist mother and her childhood living experience with an AI companion/brother makes her useful for stopping a powerful AI enemy who happens to be orchestrating total destruction of life on Earth from another hostile planet. This sometime in the future ‘doomsday cinema’ prophesy has Earth subjected to an AI uprising, with bot Harlan (Simi Liu) becoming a terrorist, out to terminate humankind. After having been defeated by the International Coalition of Nations, Harlan retreats to another plane.
