The Creator review – vast and exhilarating sci-fi actioner rages against the AI machine

Director Gareth Edwards draws together the many strands of our current AI debate with tremendous boldness, conjuring up an intriguing and stimulating spectacleThis colossal sci-fi thriller from Gareth Edwards features John David Washington and Gemma Chan in vast mysterious panoramas and vertiginous vistas which deserve to be shown at Imax-plus scale; it also shows that Christopher Nolan isn ’t the only British director in Hollywood thinking (and acting) big. After a stint making franchise movies such asGodzilla and the enjoyable and underratedRogue One: A Star Wars Story, Edwards has now crafted this ambitious original picture, co-written with Chris Weitz, which is closer in spirit to his ingenious 2010 debutMonsters.The Creator is an old-fashioned science-fiction actioner with some ideas to match to state-of-the-art digital effects, in the tradition of Ridley Scott ’s Blade Runner orNeill Blomkamp ’s District 9, with a creeping colonialist ’s fear of the unknown to match that in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. And given that Edwards has served some time aboard the Star Wars mother ship, it shouldn’t be too surprising to find some holograms in the mix and a certain dustbin-sized droid which whimpers something poignant about what an hon our it’s been to serve his comrades before lumbering out to face the enemy on a kamikaze mission.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Film Science fiction and fantasy films Artificial intelligence (AI) John David Washington Gemma Chan Gareth Edwards Computing Consciousness Culture Neuroscience Human biology Psychology Technology Source Type: news