Director: Gareth Edwards
Actors: John David Washington, Madeline Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
Rating: M
‘The Creator’ is a new take on a trusted sci-fi trope
of humanity vs “the other”. In this case, we have an almost Skynet-like rise of
artificial intelligence (AI) and robots – set 50 years in the future – but then
the film takes a bit of a turn, as we predominantly follow Joshua (Washington),
Maya (Chan) and Alphie (Voyles) and their struggle between survival and doing
the right thing. Probably Edwards’ best film since ‘Monsters’.
This is definitely not an outright sci-fi war film,
like ‘Edge of Tomorrow’, and is not a Star Wars rip-off, but does take elements
of both. There’s also elements of ‘Chappie’, ‘Elysium’, ‘Westworld’, but it’s
all very focused on the humans vs AI struggle and the greyness of what’s right/best
for the future, and that age-old sci-fi question: what does it mean to be
human?
The cinematography is excellent, Washington and Voyles are great, Janney
as the Colonel plays well against type, we get Watanabe as a wise robot and the
final set-piece is pretty impressive, based around the NOMAD ship. Sometimes the
tone/pace is a little off, and none of the reveals are particularly shocking,
but it does add up to a pretty coherent, plausible and satisfying whole.
Overall: Good addition to the humans v robots record.
Gav's
Rating: 3.5 stars
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