True Love
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.
- Released: 2023-10-06
- Runtime: 134 minutes
- Genre: Action, Thrillers
- Stars: John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, Marc Menchaca, Ken Watanabe, Ralph Ineson, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Veronica Ngo, Robbie Tann, Leanna Chea, Michael Esper, Karen Aldridge, Mackenzie Lansing, Charlie McElveen, Rad Pereira, Jeb Kreager, Daniel Ray Rodriguez, Pat Skelton, Syd Skidmore, Teerawat Mulvilai
- Director: Gareth Edwards
Comments
- stevelivesey-37183 - 25 June 2024
Looks great but struggles to join the dots in the plot
Very interesting and ambitious story about AI (yawn) that holds the attention for the first hour but then starts to fall down in the last hour due to a poor narrative and a story that deviates from from its own world building.
I like all of Edward's' movies, therefore this will be biased.
I cannot help but feel that somewhere a 3 or four hour version of the movie exists.
There are so many plaudits to give about this movie like how it looks great and how did they make this for eighty million when most Marvel tripe costs a minimum of $250 million.
Just a shame that the last hour feels like they are trying to get a quart into a pint with a bunch a poorly fleshed out ideas.
Still, I would recommend. - grinningelvis - 22 May 2024
Completely Empty
The Creator isn't very good. It isn't smart. It isn't exciting. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense and there are next to no emotional entanglements that can justify its 140 minutes of screentime. It's not just that everything in The Creator has been done before and done better, its that Gareth Edwards seems to believe that the juxtaposition of stunning vistas and floating machinery merits a pass on intellectual and interpersonal banality. The actors feel robotic - especially the humans and especially John David Robinson - and the set pieces repetitive and predictable. It's an extended chase scene that sprinkles its shoot-em-ups with visions of synthetic humans being tortured. We're told that this has consequences but none of them are detectible onscreen. Everyone here is just going through the motions as if preprogrammed by an AI to deliver the bare minimum action film experience.
What's alarming is that this is an amalgamation of Edwards' films into a single thematic unit that isn't worthy of any of its disparate parts. There are plenty of rebel politics, third-world exploitation, and monsters, but not an once of soul. While Monsters and Rogue One both had momentum and curiosity, Creator is closer in form and execution to the clunky, uneven Godzilla and less satisfying. Given an $80mil budget and a 2 hour cut, we see the strain of self-importance everywhere - an insistence that big themes are being explored. But all things being precious isn't a particularly compelling philosophical argument when every creature living and synthetic is designed as a weapon. Remove the fancy window dressing and The Creator is about as complex of a machine as a pulley. There are plot holes here that suggest the filmmakers couldn't be bothered to even read their own script.
