I'm half tempted to give this full marks just for daring to play Radiohead's Everything in Its Right Place during your typical military in dropship scene. Anyway my boy Gareth knocked out another cracking piece of scifi. You really don't mind when a director takes a few years off and comes back with something like this. There's certainly a fair amount of Rogue One, Blade Runner and Terminator in the mix, the latter of which he takes the Judgement Day plot and turns it on its head defying expectations where I assumed it was going just due to the tropes of the genre.

There's also a lot of stuff on screen for 80mill in comparison to other recent effects heavy films. Gets you wondering if budgets elsewhere escalate to $200 mill mark due to talent demands or that something like this has less behind the scenes VFX artists but take longer to bake? I dunno. Either way, check it out. The trailer gives too much away (as always my opinion) however there's plenty more that isn't shown.

NB. Watch out for the Scarif Easter egg

I was expecting so much more from the movie. Having such an interesting topic to treat, the story didn't say anything new. I give it a 5 because the visual effects were nicely done, and the image and actuation weren't bad. However I think it's a clear representation of how important are the scrip writers and it's a demonstration of their strike in Hollywood. The plot and argument didn't had any sense along the movie, and I could not understand why the characters behaved the way they do, as their dialogue is almost null.

10/10 world building
3/10 writing

That last act was so atrocious it ruined the movie for me, was really enjoying the first half of the movie.

"MovieGPT, Make an IMAX-friendly SF action blockbuster. Topics: whether AIs are people, US military imperialism. Use 40% Apocalypse Now, 30% Bladerunner, 20% Star Wars."

I can't deny it was visually impressive - just about enough I felt I got my money's worth. I am glad it had a little ambition and tried to introduce emotional motivations and complex topics. But since it botched both really badly and had sub-Bondian plot credibility, I would rather they had just concentrated on making big things blow up.

Trailer: "Ten years today an AI designed to protect us detonated a nuclear warhead in Los Angeles".
So, "The Terminator 7" ?

This film does an incredible job showing life integrated with AI and robotics, and it does it emotionally and beautifully. While there’s certainly influences from many Sci-fi stories we already know, this movie depicts very real emotions caused and felt by the AI characters. The sound design was superb as well - with many of the impactful moments being completely silent instead of tormented with a soundtrack to tell you how to feel.

Honestly don't think I want to watch the film knowing they used real footage from Beirut...

Like a next generation flesh light: it's technologically advanced, looks great and gives good vibrations but I didn't get emotionally invested.

I knew when I was supposed to feel things because of the overpowering music and dramatic facial expressions but I just sat there looking at the pictures.

A solid watch but give me Rogue One any day.

I watched the ending of Rogue One 5 times in this movie

I enjoyed the movie. Great scenery and visual effects. The acting of the kid was very good. The plot wasn't surprising at first but the change of "heroes" caught my interest and kept me glued to the theater seat.

Found the film didn’t flow well and felt rushed in places.

Gareth Edwards is an excellent director but not an excellent writer. Please keep making original sci-fi movies, but for God's sake get better writers next time.

It's been a while since I watched a good sci-fi in theaters that screamed to me that it's worth paying. I am not saying this will blow your mind away, but this will make you feel why you, me and everyone else love movies and why we catch on that seat in the cinema hall every now and then hoping to feel something New from cinema.

It's been beautifully crafted that takes us right into the dystopian world. This movie has released at time where AI is growing and questions are asked about the safety of humans and this one exactly addresses that.

It's packed with some pretty great music by Hans Zimmer, and amazin VFX which transports you right into the characters life and their flaws. All said go watch this movie if you've a good time.

First I am not sure why trakt allows people to post without even seeing it. Fill up a full page just thinking about seeing it. :man_shrugging:

Okay, I did see it. I am a big sci fi junky so most movies I judge pretty easy and just enjoy. However the creator in my opinion was just all thrown together. Everyone talking about 80 million but who cares if the story is a mess. I like the actors but in the wrong movie. Many things I could say but why use a page for nothing.

Madeline Youna Voyles gives a really great performance in a visually stunning film somewhat let down by a clunky story that would have benefited from a tighter focus and shorter running time.