The trailers for the Creator gave the impression of a pretty-looking movie with a generic plot about how some chosen kid will bring peace to humans and robots. So I went in to see it with fairly meager expectations, but the movie managed to fail even them.
The plot is horribly hole-ridden, and the rules of the world change constantly. In the near-future, the US have an orbital military station that shoots missiles everywhere it wants. In some scenes, it's huge, in others, not so much. In some scenes it needs to be directly above its target to shoot missiles, in others it can hit anything in the world while comfortably hanging somewhere around the stratosphere. It can also pop up in any country's aerospace without any objections, and so can the US army. One of the more ridiculous scenes was where the Americans somehow sneak in a tank to shoot up a village, and the tank is so humongous it's the size of half the village itself.
While the first two aren't exactly top-notch cinema, the third act of the film descends into a ludicrous schizophrenic dragged-out mess. It is revealed that the protagonist's wife has been on life-support for 5 years. He asks why haven't the robots turned it off, and gets a response that robots can't hurt its creator. The fact that robots in this area coexist with humans and they could've asked is ignored, so the protagonist (expertly poorly played by Denzel Washington's son) can experience forced drama.
The Americans capture the kid and want to kill her but they for whatever reason cannot, and need the protagonist, who has paternal feelings for her, to do it. He super-conspicously whispers something to her before shooting her with an EMP gun, and in 5 minutes of screen time a huge plot twist is revealed - he did not kill her, he stunned her. After this shocking revelation the two manage to evade the US army in a local airport, hijack a plane to the moon (I'm not making this up, Gareth Edwards did!) and fly to the military station mentioned earlier.
On the military station a garrison of some 10 men try to stop them but are promptly vacuumed into space. Apart from them, there is no military personnel on the military station. At all. The kid literally runs to the control center and back without even meeting anyone on the way. After some more forced drama, the kid evacuates, and the station blows up. Fade to black.
So what wasn't bad about the Creator? Well, some cinematography looked good, and so did Gemma Chan. There were also plenty of CG explosions, if you're into that kind of stuff.
I've read people say that this is a rare example of big budget original Sci-Fi. Well it's not. There's no "Sci" here, it's a distinctively poorly-written fantasy flick with plenty of explosions and a played-out morale.
The plot is horribly hole-ridden, and the rules of the world change constantly. In the near-future, the US have an orbital military station that shoots missiles everywhere it wants. In some scenes, it's huge, in others, not so much. In some scenes it needs to be directly above its target to shoot missiles, in others it can hit anything in the world while comfortably hanging somewhere around the stratosphere. It can also pop up in any country's aerospace without any objections, and so can the US army. One of the more ridiculous scenes was where the Americans somehow sneak in a tank to shoot up a village, and the tank is so humongous it's the size of half the village itself.
While the first two aren't exactly top-notch cinema, the third act of the film descends into a ludicrous schizophrenic dragged-out mess. It is revealed that the protagonist's wife has been on life-support for 5 years. He asks why haven't the robots turned it off, and gets a response that robots can't hurt its creator. The fact that robots in this area coexist with humans and they could've asked is ignored, so the protagonist (expertly poorly played by Denzel Washington's son) can experience forced drama.
The Americans capture the kid and want to kill her but they for whatever reason cannot, and need the protagonist, who has paternal feelings for her, to do it. He super-conspicously whispers something to her before shooting her with an EMP gun, and in 5 minutes of screen time a huge plot twist is revealed - he did not kill her, he stunned her. After this shocking revelation the two manage to evade the US army in a local airport, hijack a plane to the moon (I'm not making this up, Gareth Edwards did!) and fly to the military station mentioned earlier.
On the military station a garrison of some 10 men try to stop them but are promptly vacuumed into space. Apart from them, there is no military personnel on the military station. At all. The kid literally runs to the control center and back without even meeting anyone on the way. After some more forced drama, the kid evacuates, and the station blows up. Fade to black.
So what wasn't bad about the Creator? Well, some cinematography looked good, and so did Gemma Chan. There were also plenty of CG explosions, if you're into that kind of stuff.
I've read people say that this is a rare example of big budget original Sci-Fi. Well it's not. There's no "Sci" here, it's a distinctively poorly-written fantasy flick with plenty of explosions and a played-out morale.
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