In the late 21st century, the West has been at war for 15 years with East Asia over the latter's continued support for AI, which has become so advanced that there are multitudes of sentient androids. The Americans seek to hunt down the creator of the AI before he launches a strike to win the war against them.
What we have here is yet another overlong sci-fi actioner with admittedly impressive FX and a vague attempt to say something new about the AI issue, in that the robots only seek to be left in peace by humanity. But it is also so derivative of so many other films in the broad genre that the best way to pass the time through it is really to prepare a checklist of stolen ideas before starting to watch it, so that Blade Runner, I, Robot, Battlestar Galactica, Humans, Ex Machina and Children of Men can be ticked off. And that's only for starters. There's also a strong whiff of lazy cultural generalisation in lumping a vast mass of Asian nations together as backers of AI over humanity. Edwards would be better off returning to the constraints of the Star Wars franchise instead of trying to strike out on his own, as his Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was actually far more rewarding viewing.
5/10
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