Even AI can’t save this sci-fi thriller starring Jennifer Lopez

At the tip of all of the apocalyptic dishoom-dishoom, Jennifer Lopez’s AI-mistrusting title character tells her AI saviour (which has the terribly artistic title ‘Smith’): “It isn’t like I don’t like AI: The fact is, I do not truly like anyone — individuals at all times disappoint.” Despite all its makes an attempt to be adrenaline pro-max, dystopian and action-packed, it’s this human-AI change that stands out in Netflix’s new sci-fi caper, Atlas.Atlas is the type of fortunately cataclysmic film with just a few good women and men combating aliens, machines, zombies, and diverse evils that Hollywood beloved producing by the handfuls on the flip of the century. It begins promisingly sufficient — woke up bots have turned rogue and are waging a battle towards their creators. They are led by a once-house bot-humanoid Harlan (Simu Liu). After killing thousands and thousands on Earth, the AI bots are overpowered by a counterforce fashioned by a world consortium of countries, forcing them to flee the planet. Now we soar 28 years into the longer term the place Atlas (Lopez), a counterterrorism professional with mysterious connections to Harlan, is roped in to seek out him after a sleeper AI cell is busted someplace in Hollywood. And then the aforementioned good women and men set off on a mission to a planet in Andromeda Galaxy, no much less, the place Harlan is supposedly hiding! Although the film desperately desires to attach emotionally and be a thriller, it falls wanting each targets. Mostly inane and one-dimensional in its goal and portrayal, this two-hour endurance check is as clunky because the AI-enabled thingamabob Lopez is caught inside for many of the runtime. The dialogues are corny, particularly those between Smith and Atlas — was this the film’s try and tug at our hearts? That’s a mission fail!Published 31 May 2024, 23:34 IST

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