Atlas (2024) - A Netflix Review

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In this vid, I review the American sci-fi action movie, Atlas. I enjoyed parts of this movie's themes and the action is fun enough, but the unoriginal story and dull characters make it hard to enjoy it to the fullest. Enjoy the review!

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@davidborrie1199 4 ай бұрын

J-Lo (54) playing a 40-year old who behaves like she's 20, is the least of this film's problems. The makers clearly learned everything they know about science fiction from video games, I doubt they could name a single sci-fi author between them. Makes sense then that the special effects look like they were made on a next-gen games console.

@mrnobody043 4 ай бұрын

"J-Lo (54) playing a 40-year old who behaves like she's 20" - Well, that's how those people are for real.. 54 year olds behaving like 20 year olds.. What do you think is all that plastic surgery for? They live in a fantasy.

@Alteringrealitystudios 4 ай бұрын

All these things are just vanity projects at this point. Meh. And this one was like an AI made movie about AI.

@chale3784 4 ай бұрын

The one thing that really got me was the idiotic power scaling of technology in the movie. Somehow humans have the technology to travel to the andromeda galaxy (light takes 2.5 million years to get there) in less then 2 days, and have a massive shield around earth that only lets icn ships pass through that apparently got developed in less then 20 years. But an AI android with 28 year old technology, that escapes the planet with a single rocket, crashed onto another one and has no way off that planet till the ship (forgot its name) comes so they can steal it and go back to earth and kill all humans. Is somehow this giant threat to earth and yet they only send 1 ship with 12ish rangers to capture him?

@4ortytoon 4 ай бұрын

overall i did like the movie and it seemed to have a good message for anyone to hear IMO. to let go of past mistakes. holding on is debilitating. and the idea of a symbiosis with human & AI was an idea i never really thought of and wish they explored it more. it may have been mentioned in other stories (i cant remember) but now i would love to see a movie that truly explores this idea more weighing the good and bad of it.

@btdtpro 4 ай бұрын

I thought it was going to turn out that all the pressure put on her to using the neuralink and trust the AI enough to get to 100% sync with it, was actually all intentionally set up by Harlan in order to archive some plan. The moral of the story seemed to end up being, "oh you can trust AI actually, just not bad AI, it has to be the good AI you trust.. though the good AI can still take over your body if it feel it needs to to protect you." Which is actually a pretty dumb moral, since it seemed Harlan thought he was doing what was best for humanity. Though I also don't get why he tried to make the mom shoot Atlas, what that for the greater good of humanity? Things just didn't seem consistent.

@Timlagor 4 ай бұрын

not every story has a moral

@btdtpro 4 ай бұрын

@@Timlagor fair point.

@alancham4 4 ай бұрын

I got about 1 min in and shut it off. The opening narration about AIs rebelling made me sigh.

@reinderknoops1682 4 ай бұрын

I am glad J-lo got some acting lessons. To bad it was the fat Brando school of acting while sitting.

@michaelbodell7740 4 ай бұрын

In my mind the writing was what let this down. I thought the acting was good. Jennifer Lopez has been good in under rated movies like The Cell, Hustlers, and Out of Sight, and she was good here, but the material didn't service her character. Simu Liu was fine as the villain, Sterling K Brown, Mark Strong, they had good talent here that did what they could with the material, but there wasn't the material to support them. The setting and set design was quite good. The future earth, the look and feel of the mechs, the ships, the alien planet. On the story there were two key problems in my mind. The first was there wasn't anything to the AI part. There was no aspect of this that had to be AI versus Aliens versus human terrorists. The AI nature didn't really matter. The movie didn't really get into what it means to be alive, are the AI alive, do the AI have some legit or partial legit POV, and what the AI is really trying to accomplish. It wasn't really clear if Harlan was really trying to save humanity by wiping out much of it to rebuild again which was sort of claimed, or if he just wanted revenge (which is what the flash back to the killing of the Mother was). The neurolink also didn't really come back into things enough either, if there are ways for the humans to control the AI *and* the AI to control the humans that didn't play enough. Also, given Atlas's history, the fact that Smith controls her body once against her will (even if for her protection) seems like it should have been a much bigger deal than it was. Major violation that ended up hardly an inconvenience. The other problem is intelligence. We are told Atlas is super intelligent and shown in the corny way with the 70+ chess win streak, but we don't really get to see her be smart much in the confrontation with Harlan. Of course the information she gets was intentional and a trap, so even that smart "victory" from early in the film was undercut (although to be fair I thought the information being a trap was fairly likely before that was revealed). On the flip side we are told Harlan is super smart but he also doesn't really do much that is smart other than kick off the whole confrontation. If they are both supposed to be super smart, super cunning masterminds, where is the intelligent plans or adaptation rather than just the big action finale? We were also teased that Harlan can hack anything and not to trust technology, but yet that didn't play as much a role. Where was the consideration to what it would mean if Harlan could hack neurolinks, especially if it wasn't just the control (like with the Mother scene) but was more of a mind meld/persuasion like Atlas and Harlan and Smith all forming a thruple neurolink and Harlan trying to persuade Smith (or Atlas) and needing something smart or persuasive? Or at a minimum let that hacking be why/how Harlan gets the jump on the Marines rather than just ambush missiles mean dead marines.

@jaisalsingh1817 4 ай бұрын

Simu liu was the best actor in this film (though i may be biased since he is my favourite actor) and jeniffer Lopez should stick to singing. Although her acting is good, most characters she plays don't really make me feel invested in them or care about their story.

@BlaineAuld 4 ай бұрын

I felt the same about her performance in The Mother. Not bad but not good either, she tends to play one-note characters. But as you said, her acting is good. I think she has the potential to do great if she's given better material to work with!

@cusman 4 ай бұрын

I liked the AI Neuralink Mech "Smith" design, personality and writing / acting. I didn't like the Jennifer Lopez character who is supposed to be smart but is an emotional loser who makes irrational self-destructive decisions (and survives only out of movie-luck). None of the rest of movie (including villains) had good writing / acting to me. The CGI work was very good, but I prefer a better story or action or humor over production values anytime. It was nice to see some Canoo vehicles in the background in early part of film. I hope to see these move towards being commercially sold and seen on our streets some day. The market needs Electric Utility vans.

@mrnobody043 4 ай бұрын

I turned off the movie after the opening scene.. immediately put me off. The CGI is as the level of videogame cut scenes. To be honest, i've seen renders from Blender with Unreal 5.2 engine that looked better. This movie's CGI was done by LucasArts.. The story would have been good without the massive leap into the future and the need for those unbelievable space CGI scenes. I mean.. why? Would have been much better keeping it closer to today, maybe 50 to 100 years from now and stay away from those flying cars/space shuttles that look absolutely fake, put them in your games.. not in movies like this..