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Critics Are Lighting The Electric State Up
Reviews are overwhelmingly negative for Joe and Anthony Russo’s latest Netflix movie.
Vulture critic Bilge Ebiri’s review, for example, called it a “$320 million piece of junk” that becomes “actively annoying.” The sci-fi film, which stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt in an alternate version of the ‘90s where humans are at war with robots, is a loose adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel of the same name. “ The Electric State synthesizes the worst tendencies of its makers’ work for the MCU, including laborious, grind-things-to-a-halt exposition; sitcom-thin characterizations; Pavlovian pop music cues; and shards of snark lodged like shrapnel in a thick and toxic goo of sentimentality. “A better and more intellectually curious film might have leveraged the quality of its effects in a way that deepened this story’s glancing parallels to our real-world crises; there’s a half-assed hint of social commentary buried somewhere deep inside the villain’s strategy to manufacture hate out of fear, and complacency out of dehumanization, but The Electric State is content to waste its cutting-edge tech on one-joke WALL-E rejects who eventually band together to fight Skate for their freedom.
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