Atlas
Came out; 2024
Time; 1 hour 58 min
Watched: Netflix
Rated: PG-13 for strong sci-fi violence, action, bloody images and strong language
IMDB Rating; 5.6/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring.
Jennifer Lopez as Atlas Shepherd
Simu Liu as Harlan Shepherd
Sterling K Brown as Colonel Elias Banks
Gregory James Cohan as Smith
Ambraham Popoola as Casca Decius
Mark Strong as General Jake Booth
Story Line.
Atlas Shepherd (Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it
Thoughts:
I was leery about this. It seemed to be your typical space, person is in a place they don't belong. It had the typical “Was supposed to make humanity better” plot BUT it wasn't bad.
It was action from the jump, it had a different feel and Jennifer Lopez is not at all a bad actress given the right script.
It was well put together with the mix of action and humor; it had a realistic feel to it.
CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert
It is 28 years since the world prevented its extinction by a rogue AI android known as Harlan. Atlas Shepherd an analyst who shares a mysterious past with this Harlan is the only person who can find it. Atlas uses Harlan's captured number two Casca to discover its whereabouts and convinces General Boothe to let her join the mission to capture or destroy it. Though she's viewed as unstable, General Jake Boothe her strongest supporter is in charge of the military program that is tasked with capturing the AI, which everyone is sure will return to wipe out humanity. Shepherd is assigned to a company of "Rangers." She is introduced to an ARC. It is provided as means of both attack and defense in battle and offers its operator a great deal of protection. The operator rides within the ARC and together they are a fighting team. The ARC is an AI which Shepherd does not trust because of her past with Harlan. It tells her its name is Smith and she must wear a link that will connect her brain with its processor. Smith tries to convince Shepherd that she must trust it implicitly so they can synchronize their systems and operate as one - combining her analytical skills with its vast database and warehouse of weapons. How does a person capture an AI like Harlan that's always one step ahead? To succeed, Atlas must learn to trust Smith, another AI, despite her innate distrust for it. They travel to Andromeda in the Dhib - a heavily armed ship capable of intergalactic travel which has been equipped with carbon bombs that can destroy anything. But, it's all been a ploy by Harlan to gain possession of the Dhib and its weapons to return to Earth an annihilate the population. As they approach Harlan's headquarters, his forces wipe out the ARC equipped Rangers leaving only Shepherd and Smith alive. In the ensuing battle Shepherd relents and gives Smith her complete trust. It is only after this profound decision that the two can sync completely and finally destroy Harlan and his allies. But in the struggle, Smith is destroyed just as a recovery team arrives to save Shepherd. Back on earth, she is now a "Ranger" and is provided with a new ARC containing Smith's CPU.
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