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Not Even Jennifer Lopez Seems to Know What Atlas Is Meant to Be
The Netflix original is neither a serious action flick nor a B-movie. It’s just a slick, textureless attempt to assure you that AI is your friend.
Atlas Shepherd is the kind of woman who alienates her colleagues with her terse attitude and then wows them with her competence, who falls asleep on the sofa in front of her chessboard at night, and who wears her hair up in a businesslike twist so that it can come tumbling down later. She wavers between playing her character with some degree of psychological realism, her lip quivering in despair as she tries in vain to contact her colleagues, and going full screwball in moments like the one in which she discovers she broke her leg, howling “I really need you to shut up right now!” at Smith. Lopez, who spends half the movie as a face surrounded by machinery, looks lost in a sea of computer graphics, something that’s even more true of her costars Liu and Sterling K. Brown, who plays mission head Colonel Elias Banks.
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