A brilliant data analyst with a deep distrust of AI finds it may be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry.
Atlas is directed by Brad Peyton who has previously directed Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore (2010), Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012), San Andreas (2015), Incarnate (2016) and Rampage (2017).
Look going into Atlas I didn't expect an Oscar worthy masterpiece especially given a majority of Brad Peyton's previous work. However there comes a point where "this movie is dumb" isn't an excuse anymore, the problem here is Atlas is incredibly painful to sit through and quite frankly one of the ugliest and horribly written movies I've seen so far this year. Heck there is an argument to be made that this is THE worst movie so far this year.
The performances are dreadful even great actors such as Sterling K. Brown can't save this mess (it doesn't help that he really isn't given a whole lot to really do.) Simu Liu is a terrible villain who's incredibly one note and has so little to offer performance wise, Jennifer Lopez is truly terrible here as well. I'm not entirely sure what she was going for here, but if it was to come off as a badass heroine she completely missed the mark, her character Atlas Shepherd has no meaningful character development. She's thrown at the viewer and the movie expects the viewer to instantly connect with her which is not exactly how character development and connecting the viewer with a character works.
The biggest problem here is Atlas has nothing going for it, the movie contains every single sci-fi trope you could possibly think of, it borrows from so many other far better movies, books and video games of the same genre but forgets to do something interesting with those ideas. The writing doesn't bother to explore anything about this world, the most you get is a brief introduction at the beginning and that's about it. You are left in the dark for the rest of the movie which is 2 hours which it clearly did not need to be that long.
The movie itself is ugly, the CGI is incredibly undercooked and really seems like it was rushed out the door for release, even the big CGI moments in this movie look disastrous. I have seen straight to video sci-fi films that look far more appealing to the eye than this, films where there was so much passion and even if they didn't have the best writing you still respect the amount of work that was put into making them. I can't say the same for Atlas this is a prime example of a sci-fi movie that fails on every single level.
Atlas is available on Netflix
Disgrace To Cinema F
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