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Seeing Atlas starring Jennifer Lopez pop up on Netflix doesn't necessarily leave you with a lot of hope that it's going to be a good movie, but I surprisingly liked it much more than I expected.

It may not start off particularly strong, but it gets going and I feel Jennifer Lopez did a better job acting than I expected, and I do remember her doing fairly well at times, like in Out of Sight.

Anyway, it really gets going after about 20-30 minutes, and the action is very well done in my opinion and fun to watch. Think Halo but even more action at it's best. She doesn't trust AI but slowly learns to trust the AI she is forced to work with and develops a bond that grows throughout, and I enjoyed that.

I think many Netflix movies get unfairly rated poorly and of course anything starring JLo will as well. As usual, it wouldn't surprise me if the very low ratings came from people who didn't even watch it. I really don't feel if I was going to give something a 4 or lower, I would even continuing watching it and didn't feel I could give a fair review (unless I was in a theater with friends or family and had to sit through a movie I hated).

Anyway, if you like action and sci fi, and go in for some fun not expecting some masterpiece, I think you will definitely be entertained.

Was it great no!!! Will it hold a spot in the Sci-fi Hall of Fame No!! But Did it hold me and Family attention for 2hr sure did.. The CGI was top notch, story was nothing new,but in today's world where AI is real thing you feal a little bit closer to the story than say 40 years ago when Terminator came out..Jlo is no Ripley from Aliens but she tried.. The back and forth between her and Smith was entertaining. Everyone is entitled to there opinions but to say this movie is Trash just because Jlo is in it, is crazy . And Simu Lui who plays Harlen the "Bad Guy" did a good job also. Don't let some of these reviews stop from watching a Decent chilling at home on the couch with some popcorn movie..

This film has a bit of everything that you would find in the average nerds bedroom.... Aliens, Terminator, Titanfall, and every geeks current favourite.....AI

Throw in a bit of eye candy in the form of JLo (for some reason) then try to hold it all together with the idea that people and robots can live together (also Titanfall 2s campaign story).

This just feels like the creatives behind it were handed a ton of money and told to go wild. It looks great, even has some cool scenes, but is basically predictable cheese that netflix tends to be known for.

As long as you go into this with low expectations, it's still pretty watchable for a sci-fi film.

The movie starts out great. We have a cop who is frustrated with her life, she's an emotional mess, heavily addicted to coffee and falls a sleep on the couch regularly, living the bachelor's lifestyle. So your typical 80's and early 90s cop movie start but with a PG-13 rating.

Our protagonist Atlas, is also a bit rash, hyper intelligent, she doesn't like to play by the rules, mistrusting, and is a bit to heavy handed. I really liked that this Hollywood trope and I've never seen this type character given to a female lead. Made the old trope fresher.

I hate to say this, but this movie is a missed opportunity for a great sci-fi move. But it is sort of broken into two peaces. On one side it's a real deal sci-fi, and on the other it's a pure action movie. And a lot of this action could have been cut out to explore more sciency stuffs.

For you who like a character driven plot, you might like this movie. Our protagonist is forced to go on an extremely dangerous mission, and in order to save her life and accomplish her life's mission, she has to learn to trust an AI robot, and grow as a person.

There are some serious issues in this movie, on how technology works, based on the information the audience is given, and a few highly derivative scenes designed to keep the character narrative progressing forward...but it is a movie, and not a book.

I looked at a few reviews, and I was very surprised at the hate on Jenifer Lopez. I have never been into pop culture and didn't realize who the lead was until I looked at the IMBD actors list. I personally think she did a great job, looked great with the new hairstyle, and playing a different character. She is very likable. So, my point is I have no idea why she is despised by so many reviewers...? Perhaps, she made some insensitive comments in the pop literature? I just don't know.

Overall, this could have been a very serious sci-fi movie, but the direction opted for an action movie instead. So grab a beers or a wine bottle, put you thinking cap do the side, and enjoy the pretty ride.

For those wondering how Jennifer Lopez managed to get cast in the lead role for this film, a role she is completely wrong for, well...she produced it. Same thing as her last three self documentaries.

Without giving one specific plot point away, it's only necessary to compare this to the Will Smith I-Robot film to know what it's about.

In I-Robot, an imperfect movie, but a box office smash, there was a damaged protagonist who hated AI (robots) and allowed it to cloud his thinking and consume his life and career. When an existential threat of true AI dominance arises, threatening human extinction, the protagonist bonds with an AI cohort, and fends off the uprising and destroys the AI central threat.

This movie really wanted to be that movie, except in space with a female lead. There is real thing in Hollywood: you can steal a story if you change several key aesthetics. So, here we are.

There are a lot of other problems with this movie. The most visible of which is Lopez. She's the kind of actress who some time ago encountered the nadir that many actors do: her status as a celebrity eclipsed her stature as an actress, and she began performing in a very packaged and self conscious way.

The other challenges? When a lead performer is as polarizing as Lopez there are many who will "hate watch" this, rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the imminent schadenfreude.

It's further complicated that the director, Peyton (Andreas), is familiar enough with spectacle, but not masterful in putting together something that should be of epic scale.

Add to those obstacles the glaringly apparent lack of originality in the script or character beats, and you have a patient that is Dead On Arrival.

The script attempts to make the story of AI galactic domination relatable by focusing on Atlas's (Lopez) personal history with betrayal. Unfortunately it throws the entire weight of impending genocide out of orbit. It makes the trials of the protagonist feel small; and Lopez, not looking dirty enough or scarred enough, hits every mark we see coming from a mile away.

Mark Strong, Simu Liu and other supporting cast members are saddled with similar story, plot and dialogue problems.

What we get is another big splashy Netflix film that will be forgotten in a hurry; to be half-watched while doing chores or sitting on a plane.

Bummer.

The writers latch onto a current concern: what happens if AI develops to a point where it decides it's time for us to go and it's bye-bye humanity. The special effects are good and I like imaginings of what the future will look like and what I will miss out on, unless maganuts destroy everything first.

I assume most who decided to watch Atlas did so because they like a good sci-fi space opera and wanted to see how Jenny from the block is holding up.

There isn't a lot new here as plot goes: madman (mad robot, same thing) is determined to kill everyone except for a few chosen; heroine is off to stop him. And plot twist (not really), heroine finds soul mate.

The film is pretty much a one woman show as Ms. Lopez is on camera 100 per cent of the time. As she has to work in a confined space for much of the film, acting as such is how well Ms. Lopez can use her voice to create mood and sense of urgency. Basically a decent pop corn flic.

Brad Peyton seems to be another one of these directors that Hollywood keeps throwing money at for mediocre formulaic movies, almost certainly written with AI now, trading on big star names & flashy soulless CGI. Jennifer Lopez is still just an average actor I hate to say, propped up by better actors around her. Using AI as a plot device has already been done so much better in movies since the 80's, but is now mostly just boring. It's easy to see all the movies Peyton is trying to pay homage to, but it's usually in the laziest way possible. The excessive time of Lopez alone in her mech suit, clearly just hours of her, green screen, & the director trying to come up with remotely interesting dialogue, is truly a test of endurance to watch. This movie will be forgotten within months.

Depending on your interest level of sci-fi and drama, you may or may not enjoy this movie. Of course, there's no shortage of impressive and elegant CGI considering the genre but this movie takes a different plot path, relative to the now-predictable "AI-becomes-sentient-and-quickly-obliterates-mankind" plots like you see in the Terminator and Matrix franchises. They take a different direction of how AI becomes sentient and its actions condemning mankind in this movie.

Some have said Jennifer Lopez was incorrectly cast but she's no stranger to drama roles considering she's played similar psychologically-conflicted characters like in The Cell (2000), Enough (2002), and The Mother (2023).

I wouldn't put this movie on the same sci-fi caliber as Aliens, Terminator or Blade Runner but at the very least, this movie is worth a watch if you're bored on a Tuesday night.

That was one of the movies where I'm glad I wasn't sitting in the theater. Otherwise I would have mourned my money and left the theater before the last half hour, or maybe even earlier. I was able to fast-forward and wasn't surprised in the end because the ending was predictable, just like the whole movie. Doesn't anyone bother to write a coherent story anymore? A few action sequences and some CGI were still reasonably well done, but they don't make up for the bad story, the lousy dialog and the plot holes. In the beginning I still had hope that the movie would be reasonably good, but as the story progressed this hope also faded. A movie to forget...unfortunately. I give it 4 stars because the beginning was still reasonably entertaining.

I'm not sure why there are so many sub-par ratings. This movie is a solid action adventure sci-fi with heart. Jennifer Lopez delivers a great performance that is underappreciated. There's so much available at the click of a button for the spoiled entertainment junkies these days that perhaps their expectations have gone rotten. I liked this movie, and it doesn't really matter if the basic story is one that has been told before. The execution was done well and the acting was solid. The special effects are also impressive, such that if this movie were released 20 or 30 years ago it might have been hailed as a masterpiece.

I often leave the cinema if I'm not enjoying the film. It's supposed to be entertaining, right? So, I actually enjoyed this movie. It was an easy watch, I didn't feel patronised, or spend any time wondering what the hell was going on. I was entertained.

The storyline was engaging, JLo is a pretty versatile actress, as long as the character is easy on the eye and uncomplicated. Tick, tick. I liked the repartee between Smith and Atlas. The graphics were fine, the fight scenes weren't overly in your face, there were no animals, so no animals were hurt, and the vegetation was interesting. And I think Mark Strong is quietly cool.

Overall this movie is good to watch without any expectations.

There are things that are quite average and so foreseeable, and there are things that take us back to reflection and ourselves as human beings in our fast changing world. How we develop relationships and what these mean. Machine, Humans, AI.. where do we stand in this?

Can be cheesy, can be simple and stereotyped, but it is still about who we are, what we do, create and perpetuate, the courage to change, to learn, to face our own fears with awareness and authenticity.

The future is coming fast, and we have to learn and become better at how we live together and with each other on our planet.

So, we shall see how this unfolds, will we destroy ourselves as we already started, or will we have the guts to change and grow..?

With AI..

Big sci-fi fan here who tolerates even bad films just for the SFX but unfortunately this has such bad acting by Jennifer Lopez that I have to force myself to continue even under stress lol! The crying scenes are so fake and the whole movie centres around her so also bearable in the beginning the more it goes on it becomes unwatchable. Sorry Jennifer but I guess you don't really care, you're super rich and want to immortalize yourself as much as possible. The SFX are nice showing another planet far far away that she reaches almost instantly after lifting of earth. The villain is well known through the MU and I like him but he can't save the film.

There are a lot of movies coming out showing hate for AI and I don't get it. The beneficial applications outweigh the negative aspect and I think a scenario where AI is killing humans on their own is far fetched! I did like Jennifer Lopez in " the cell" so she is not a complete waste acting wise, just give her some good script and she would be fine! Recommend watching only for having the Poto form your own opinion!

This film is almost like a one man play so it requires an actor with great skill to keep it engaging. I've never thought much about J Lo's acting, but her bad performance in this film really stands out. Not in a good way. I don't recall ever seeing an actor playing a soldier whose character needed so much makeup and hair maintenance. I've got to save the Earth from destruction, but let me first spend an hour doing my makeup and hair. The real issue is that she just doesn't find the character. There are scenes where she is cracking jokes and trying to be funny, and then other scenes where she is supposed to be in tremendous pain and experiencing intense fear and sorrow, but she plays it all the same. She has the same expression on her face, and she always looks more like an aging model than a soldier saving the world. A role like this would have been great for Aubrey Plaza, or anyone else that tried a little harder to create a believable character and was less concerned about how they look in the mirror.

If you are a sci-fi fan and are known with the Titanfall game series, this movie will be very surprising. It is yet another take on the 'ai will take over the world'. But since I am a big fan of the Titanfall series it was great to experience a movie that was set unintentionally in the world of Titanfall. Jennifer Lopez would not have been my first choice to star in this type of movie, but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by her acting. The relationship between ai and humans got very well portrayed by Jennifer. I even almost shed a tear in the end of the movie. Having said this, I would say that there is a lot of untapped potential. It was a good experience, but it could have been amazing with a more compelling story and build up. The story felt a bit cliché at moments but the CGI partly made up for this.

Greetings again from the darkness. My goal is to give every movie a fair shake, and to seek out the best elements even when a film disappoints. I don't recall a time when this goal has been more difficult to achieve than after watching this latest from director Brad Peyton (San Andreas, 2015) and co-writers Leo Sardarian ("StartUp"), Aron Eli Coleite ("Locke & Key").

Jennifer Lopez stars as Atlas Shepherd, a brilliant government analyst and expert on AI, especially on Harlan (Simu Liu, BARBIE), ominously deemed the world's first AI terrorist. We know Atlas is smart because she has a chess winning streak against the computer and she wears black frame eyeglasses. After an opening which features Earth in peril, we flash forward 28 years, where it's evolved into "good AI" versus "evil AI". Don't worry, Atlas is on the side of good, despite her constantly frazzled state (with perfect hair) and the personal (emotional) baggage she carries with her.

After years of searching, Atlas discovers the location for Harlan, and General Boothe (Mark Strong, character actor extraordinaire) forms a team led by Colonel Elias Banks (Sterling K Brown, AMERICAN FICTION, 2023) to capture Harlan so his CPU can be studied. Of course, the mission doesn't go as planned and by the end, I was wondering which racked up the most points: explosions or Ms. Lopez's cringy acting moments. Terrible punchlines regarding a running coffee gag placed third in the competition. Since I admittedly search for positives in every movie, let's go with Simu Liu's unusual blue-eyed effect, the tight pants on Agent Atlas, and giant robotics that look like the one that went rogue in ROBOCOP (37 years ago). Apologies, but that's the best I can do for this one, other than to say we have an early Razzie frontrunner.

On Netflix beginning May 24, 2024.

Why was Jennifer Lopez casted in this movie? But in the end she is not that bad.

I am not sure why people are giving the movie a bad rating and saying its bad, first off the special effects are quit good, I just finish watching Parasyte the grey and those were bad effects.

Lopez actually pulls it off, she is not like invincible or anything she uses her intelligence instead of her strength combine with Adam the mech they are a great team.

Atlas is far better than Rebel Moon at least part 2, and is a great mech sci fin movie in the end its entertaining even with the 2 hour length.

If you like sci fi and good FX give this movie a chance honest, I almost skip it due to all those bad reviews, its clearly not a 10 but it does not deserve a 1 and certainly not all the hate it getting.

I have no idea why some reviewers are panning Jennifer Lopez' acting. Her emoting and physical acting, reacting to the intricate cgi environments and an AI sidekick named Smith (nod to The Matrix) is nothing short of astounding. For a Netflix original.film, this is a lean, action packed, often funny and tongue in cheek throwback that will make you feel you've been reading a late 5O's pulp magazine. It revolves around an AI expert sent into space in a last ditch mission to stop a rogue AI from launching an apocalyptic attack against human kind (his idea of saving humanity from themselves). In the.end, a story about redemption and overcoming prejudice, Not bad at all.

I will say as a sci-fi flick this was a pretty good movie, but Jennifer Lopez's acting in the beginning was touching go other than that. It was pretty good better than Rebel Moon on Netflix I'll say that. And I had high hopes for Rebel Moon. Hopefully it will have a sequel and be better than rebel moons sequel. The only thing I didn't like and I know it was supposed to be funny so it wasn't like it was a big deal someone Or some thing brings up pronouns I don't Want to give anything away and it made me raise my eyebrow. Luckily, that was the only thing they added in that nature all in all pretty good movie.

I had fun watching it. It is not Aliens, but it is good enough for an evening having dinner. I like Jennifer Lopez on screen. I enjoyed her in Out of Sight and Shades of Blue. She got better with the years and strong but difficult characters seems to fit her.

For me Atlas had some flavor of "Outer Limits". The dialogs between her and Smith are funny and that a strong AI comes to the conclusion that the problems humans have are not solvable because humans are the problem is not out of the thinkable ideas.

Tricks are enjoyable and the action is believable. It is to mention that she is not a skinny superfighter who knocks out 10 grown up and trained men.

Seemed like a good story, but Lopex's horrendous acting was a complete turn off. Movie didn't hold my attention.

And the main character has to be one of the worst ever. I literally found myself skipping forward through Jlo dialogue spots.

The CGI often times shows. Lopez's acting is abysmal at best and truly makes the movie unenjoyable. The movie would have been better if the AI were the main characters. Lopez is also showing her age with very weird body shape in the skintight out fits they chose for her.

CGI scenes area well done but the things happen to the are absurd and breaks immersion. Overall I rate this show a 1 star because if faile don so many levels.

Also, the fact the Jlo says over and over again she's not a combat person she's better than trained special op entire squad. More extreme plot holes.

Atlas has all the makings of a fantastic video game but unfortunately as a film just plays out as a complication of cut scenes without any real substance.

Treat it like you are watching one of those video game all cut scenes "movies" you can find on youtube. You will get any and all essential information to understand the plot, but the real enjoyment from the story is missing as you feel like you should be at the helm and not just watching.

In that regard nearly all the charachters other than our main protagonist have real life and are a joy to see even in their relatively short appearances with the titular charachter doing little for the story in her own right.