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It has been a dry season for films, or at least film scripts.

Even more so, unique ideas are hard to find.

This film is not a masterpiece, there are no fancy sFX, no exotic locations. But it has a solid script based on an excellent core idea. A true gem of a script, reminded me of good old times where everything started and ended with the script.

In addition, it delivers a great representation of the late 70s vibes - people in their mid 70s will totally get it.

Cast performances are solid and especially the leading man was practically made for this role IMHO.

At last, something brand new from the 70s.

As almost every other reviewer pointed out, the CGI is superb and surely beats Marvel and DC CGI by far. For such a budget, my kudos to the studio, they performed magnificently.

Some readers are pointing out Washington's performance, others got offended by the apparent east vs west conflict depicting the west as the bad ones (not assimilating diversity, LOL). All these are not actual flaws.

Simply, the story makes absolutely no sense, both on small levels and individual scenes and also in a greater overall scale. Ok, we know this is fiction but, on any version of the future which includes AI, almost nothing of what we see makes sense existing. The writers could use some advice from experts as it seems, it's a "kids" vision of an AI dystopia and not a real one.

I'm giving it 7/10 as its visually superb, well directed, decently acted but please, put some real effort to the script next time.

Somehow, I was expecting this to happen from season 1 and it finally did: The story drifts around too many characters. We don't have time to root for anyone since the TV writers where probably required to provide equal screen time for all of them.

I've not read the books but, even Tolkien narrowed down the Fellowship of the Ring so we could tell who the 3-4 important characters where.

Here we got an entire audience of « important» characters so eventually no one is important until a (rare) climactic event happens.

On the good news, acting is superb (by most of the cast), production is good, CGI is semi-decent but does not take away from the story.

Will watch till the end hoping no additional characters join this.