Film critic Peter Travers reviews 'The Creator,' starring John David Washington, Gemma Chan and Ken Watanabe.
you fear might be taking over our lives is the surprise hero of "The Creator," the sci-fi epic now only in theaters, where AI is presented as way preferable to our human propensity toward empathy-destroying cruelty and warfare.
The time is the near future. We're told that AI has unleashed a nuke that destroyed most of Los Angeles, killing millions. Human error is really to blame. But five years later, AI is outlawed as robots -- they're called simulants -- take refuge in the so-called New Asia, where the movie starts looking like "Apocalypse Now," a classic Vietnam reference it can't sustain, not to mention the cringe-worthy racial optics.
The real villain is the U.S. military, represented by the always electric Oscar and Emmy winner Allison Janney as Colonel Howell. She tells Joshua that Maya is still alive and that he needs to obliterate Alphie before she can destroy their hovering HQ -- a death star called the U.S.S. Nomad -- that locates and bombs New Asian targets.Washington and the luminous Voyles invest genuine emotional gravity into the relationship between Joshua and this robot girl child.
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