Atlas: Analyzing Closely
Atlas Shepherd stars Jennifer Lopez in the Netflix original film set for 2024. Data analyst Atlas sets out to find a renegade robot; she does not trust artificial intelligence. To save mankind, she must, however, rely on artificial intelligence to trust when circumstances depart from expectations.
Viewers will have to watch the movie to see whether the story unfolds as successful with an intriguing twist at the conclusion since it is not obvious how it develops.
The Flaws of Atlas Don't Seem Fatal at First Glance
Set in a technologically sophisticated future, Atlas is named for Jennifer Lopez's character, Atlas Shepherd, who was only a girl when Harlan (Simu Liu), one of her brilliant mother's (Lana Parrilla) artificially intelligent robots turned rogue. Harlan not only broke free from his programming but also overrode the systems keeping people uninjured and hacked into artificial intelligence projects all around. Atlas's mother first among them; millions died. But the first artificial intelligence terrorist fled into deep space when humanity began to turn around the battle.
Atlas has developed into a talented but erratic analyst driven to find Harlan some thirty years later. She harasses her way into the expedition to rescue him, led by Colonel Elias Banks (Sterling K. Brown), whose opinions on artificial intelligence are quite different when a lead at last shows his hiding. Together with his platoon, he has accepted her mother's neural connection tech and each sync with an AI-powered mecha suit. The resultant unification, the logic goes, makes them better than their enemy. Whether Atlas lives or dies depends on Smith (Gregory James Cohan) deciding whether to believe the program of her suit.
Atlas Is Missing the One Thing Every Science Fiction Film Needs
I knew once I focused on the tempo. Atlas rushes over scenes like it's eager to get to the next chapter; it is clearly story-driven. Any given moment's most fascinating aspect is what is happening, sometimes in light of what that tells about Atlas. That clearly strains the plot to be intriguing, but it also reveals the movie's total lack of curiosity—that "superficiality" component of being perfunctory.
Underneath the surface of this narrative, there is a lot of possibility the directors simply choose not to investigate.
Atlas Review: New Netflix Movie by Jennifer Lopez Gets Science Fiction Completely Wrong
One term that comes to me when trying to characterize Atlas is perfunctory. Usually I wouldn't use this word to describe a movie, but it came to me really early in the running and I can't get rid of it. I shall so have to try and dissect its tenacity instead.
Jennifer Lopez stars Atlas Shepherd in a 2024 Netflix original film. Data analyst Atlas sets out to retrieve a renegade robot; she does not trust AI. She must, however, rely on artificial intelligence to trust when events deviate from expectations if we are to save mankind.
The New Netflix Action Movie With a Dismal 17% Rotten Tomatoes Score From the Critics Top the Streamer's Global Chart
Top of the streamer's worldwide leaderboard is Atlas, Jennifer Lopez's new Netflix action film with a 17% Rotten Tomatoes score. From Brad Peyton (known for helmingross the Dwayne Johnson star vehicles Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, San Andreas, and Rampage) with a script by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite, Netflix's new Sci-fi action film follows a data analyst who teams with an AI to confront a renegade robot bent on eradicating humanity. Apart from Lopez in the lead character, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, and Mark Strong comprise the Atlas ensemble.
A few days after its premiere, Lopez's new action film already holds #1 position on Netflix's worldwide ranking. Atlas achieved #1 on Netflix's Global Top 10 list for the week of May 20–26 with 56.3 million hours watched and 28.2 million overall views. In its second week in the Top 10, it finished much ahead of the second place Thelma the Unicorn, which attracted 10.7 million views. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Mother of the Bride, Disturbia, Sing 2, Ice Age: Collision Course, A Simple Favor, Madame Web, and Security round up the remaining top ten.
Atlas's AI Borders on a Silicon Valley PsyOp Message
Science fiction is virtually all about curiosity; without it, Atlas has soul. Moreover, the scene above shows how the characters meet the same destiny. All of them are reduced to a set of facts about themselves they embrace without any indication of struggle or changing capacity. Atlas at least gets to develop her level of trust in AI, but from the perspective of drama, it may as well be an on/off switch that affects little else about who she is. It makes sense that I found her path so boring.
Atlas only scratches an itch, perfunctorially, at least mildly unpleasant. But I could understand it in terms of our present situation and generate something even worse. The film responds to growing anxieties around artificial intelligence by admitting, yes, it could evolve to try and wipe us out. But it's also a tool, and we should still put it everywhere, even in our brains. If Atlas can learn to trust it after everything she went through, then you, humble viewers, should have no problem doing the same.
That is, when you boil it down, what this movie has to say on the topic of AI. It breezes right past saying the quiet part out loud to having no awareness of a need to modulate volume at all. Optimistic and agnostic views on AI are usually predicated on engaging with its world-destroying potential as a hypothetical; that they can conceivably win out when that's a demonstrable reality is quite a position to take. But don't be too concerned. Worrying about Atlas' message would require a lot more faith in it as a delivery system than is warranted.
Atlas is available to stream on Netflix May 24. The film is 118 minutes long and rated PG-13 for strong Sci-fi violence, action, bloody images and strong language.
