‘Atlas’ Review: Jennifer Lopez’ Exo-Suit Fits Uncomfortably in This Shrug-Worthy Sci-Fi Vehicle
24.05.2024 - 01:07
/ variety.com
Todd Gilchrist editor Arriving on the heels of “The Greatest Love Story Never Told” — a true milestone of superstar transparency where Jennifer Lopez expressed a clear-eyed view of her current career status — “Atlas” feels like an underwhelming return to the kind of projects that have maintained Lopez’ place in the Hollywood firmament, but not the ones that catapulted her there in the first place. One of her few science fiction-themed films, its novelty alone should make it stand out, especially with Brad Peyton, a reliable purveyor of large-scale spectacle (“San Andreas,” “Rampage”) in the director’s chair.
But a dearth of original ideas undercuts the appeal of “Atlas,” leaving Lopez to fend for herself in much the same way her character is forced to in the film’s formulaic story. Lopez plays the title character, a coffee-addicted, “rigid and hostile” data analyst whose mother Val (Lana Parilla) developed the first artificial-intelligence being, Harlan (Simu Liu), when Atlas was just a child.
It was not long after that Harlan inexplicably went rogue and overtook control of all AI devices in order to launch a war against humankind. Harlan eventually left Earth, but when global military force ICN captures his associate Casca Vix (Abraham Popoola), General Jake Boothe (Mark Strong) reaches out to Atlas to hack Casca’s brain in the hopes of finding Harlan’s whereabouts.
Atlas identifies Harlan’s location on a remote planet “in the Andromeda Galaxy,” and insists on joining the team dispatched to apprehend him despite the trepidation of the operation’s commanding officer, Colonel Elias Banks (Sterling K. Brown).
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