In this overblown sci-fi actioner, AI bots across the world go on a murderous rampage, led by the world's first AI terrorist, Harlan (Simu Liu). Twenty-eight years later, gritty and driven AI analyst Atlas (Jennifer Lopez) goes on a mission to a distant planet to which Harlan had absconded, where her team is ambushed, leaving her stranded and reliant on her mech-suit's onboard AI (Sterling K. Brown). In a heady mix of thunderous music and huge glossy visual effects, the film is based around big action beats of little consequence, and what is effectively the Lopez bottle-show runs out of steam quite quickly. JLo spits out her dialogue and purses her lips a lot, Mark Strong admirably does his best to keep a straight face as her boss, and Liu and Brown are disappointing wasted here. The usual influences of genre classics such as Aliens, Pacific Rim, Terminator and others are never far away, and this kind of big brash sci-fi seems an odd fit for a Lopez star vehicle.
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