arturmachado-29588
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Carte Nix (John Lithgow) has an unhealthy scientific obsession with his daughter's education, something his wife Jenny Nix (Lolita Davidovich) thinks is going too far.
There are thrillers so far-fetched that only at the end when we start to think about the plot do we see that it doesn't make any sense, but in this one it's the opposite: it reaches a point where it embraces the far-fetched knowing that it is far-fetched and continues with far-fetched taste, not trying to be more serious than that, even suggesting that it is a parody of Hitchcockian thrillers.
Brian De Palma brings together all of his trademark images in this film: the multiple personality disorder (which in this film really hits home), the adulterous wife, the slow motion, the stalking camera and a whole bunch of other clichés culminating in an ending... that just seen. Well-acted. It's not meant to be taken seriously, and with that in mind from the beginning, it even becomes fun.
There are thrillers so far-fetched that only at the end when we start to think about the plot do we see that it doesn't make any sense, but in this one it's the opposite: it reaches a point where it embraces the far-fetched knowing that it is far-fetched and continues with far-fetched taste, not trying to be more serious than that, even suggesting that it is a parody of Hitchcockian thrillers.
Brian De Palma brings together all of his trademark images in this film: the multiple personality disorder (which in this film really hits home), the adulterous wife, the slow motion, the stalking camera and a whole bunch of other clichés culminating in an ending... that just seen. Well-acted. It's not meant to be taken seriously, and with that in mind from the beginning, it even becomes fun.
In a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua (John David Washington), a former special forces agent - still - mourning 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 in the form of a child (Madeleine Yuna Voyles) with the power to end the war - and humanity itself.
Directed by Gareth Edwards, it suffers from the same problem as his previous film, "Rogue One", that is, a sci-fi visual spectacle full of CGI but a very mediocre story, and in this even worse film, it actually looks like it was written by an AI. Full of conveniences and giant black holes in the script, the story makes no sense at all, reaching the end of the film with much to explain, or better said, nothing to explain because what's left is just a big void of nothingness. And for a film that tries to be emotional, I didn't feel any emotion during its 2-hour runtime.
The only question that I have after watching this is how can someone mentally sane defend tin cans with their own life? As they say in the movie about the robots, I apply that same phrase to the film: "It's just programming", in this case for humans.
Directed by Gareth Edwards, it suffers from the same problem as his previous film, "Rogue One", that is, a sci-fi visual spectacle full of CGI but a very mediocre story, and in this even worse film, it actually looks like it was written by an AI. Full of conveniences and giant black holes in the script, the story makes no sense at all, reaching the end of the film with much to explain, or better said, nothing to explain because what's left is just a big void of nothingness. And for a film that tries to be emotional, I didn't feel any emotion during its 2-hour runtime.
The only question that I have after watching this is how can someone mentally sane defend tin cans with their own life? As they say in the movie about the robots, I apply that same phrase to the film: "It's just programming", in this case for humans.
