'The Creator' Creates an Experience in Theaters
Director Gareth Edward shows a visually stunning story of the war versus AI.
By Rizwan Khan
Director Gareth Edward shows a visually stunning story of the war versus AI.
By Rizwan Khan
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” director Gareth Edwards makes his return to theaters with an interesting take on artificial intelligence and its role in society using elaborate set pieces and beautiful shots in his new movie “The Creator.”
When a war between humans and the AI created to protect them breaks out, the military recruits ex-special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) to hunt down and kill the creator of these machines, the mysterious architect of the AI. On his hunt he come to find that the architect’s world-ending weapon is an AI in the form of a child, creating a difficult choice for Joshua.
Edwards, who has directed several action pictures including “Godzilla” and “Monsters,” takes viewers through an epic journey with beautiful landscapes and epic battles. The movie is visually stunning and has amazing set pieces. Many of the scenes take place in Asia, and there are several beautiful shots of rivers and valleys. There is one point in the movie where fighting takes place on the banks of a river, showcasing its incredible action and choreography.
The scenes look realistic and similarities can be drawn between this film and “Rogue One,” whose K2-SO serves almost as a visual predecessor to the robots in this film. This film’s mechanical characters might be the most realistic I have ever seen. They display very human-like behavior and even seem to have emotions similar to humans. At one point in the movie, there is a scene with robots on a boat going through a river and one of the robots rests against the side of the boat in such a humanlike way. Even the way they speak when in a panicked state is just so realistic.
In other films, robots are very stiff and are a lot slower. Even in the “Star Wars” movies, the droids will talk quite well but they are very obviously robots. If you were to hide the faces of the robots in “The Creator,” they could easily look just like humans.
While I really enjoyed this movie, it wasn’t perfect. The ending of the movie did lower my enjoyment quite a bit because it was very messy and didn’t make sense. Many times throughout the movie’s ending, I was confused on what was going on.
The film also might have come out at a bad time especially with all the worries about ChatGPT and AI taking over society. It feels like Edwards misread the room considering the way he portrayed AI and when this kind of movie should have been released.
This movie also uses a common “warrior and child” trope. I feel like this has been used so much that it is getting redundant. It’s been used in “The Mandalorian,” “True Grit,” “Logan,” “The Last of Us” and many more. This trope is just overused and they always seem to have similar endings and are very predictable.
While “The Creator” does have issues that hold it back, it is a solid movie and I enjoyed watching it. It was a fun experience that showed us a new style of robots.
“The Creator” is now playing in theaters.
When a war between humans and the AI created to protect them breaks out, the military recruits ex-special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) to hunt down and kill the creator of these machines, the mysterious architect of the AI. On his hunt he come to find that the architect’s world-ending weapon is an AI in the form of a child, creating a difficult choice for Joshua.
Edwards, who has directed several action pictures including “Godzilla” and “Monsters,” takes viewers through an epic journey with beautiful landscapes and epic battles. The movie is visually stunning and has amazing set pieces. Many of the scenes take place in Asia, and there are several beautiful shots of rivers and valleys. There is one point in the movie where fighting takes place on the banks of a river, showcasing its incredible action and choreography.
The scenes look realistic and similarities can be drawn between this film and “Rogue One,” whose K2-SO serves almost as a visual predecessor to the robots in this film. This film’s mechanical characters might be the most realistic I have ever seen. They display very human-like behavior and even seem to have emotions similar to humans. At one point in the movie, there is a scene with robots on a boat going through a river and one of the robots rests against the side of the boat in such a humanlike way. Even the way they speak when in a panicked state is just so realistic.
In other films, robots are very stiff and are a lot slower. Even in the “Star Wars” movies, the droids will talk quite well but they are very obviously robots. If you were to hide the faces of the robots in “The Creator,” they could easily look just like humans.
While I really enjoyed this movie, it wasn’t perfect. The ending of the movie did lower my enjoyment quite a bit because it was very messy and didn’t make sense. Many times throughout the movie’s ending, I was confused on what was going on.
The film also might have come out at a bad time especially with all the worries about ChatGPT and AI taking over society. It feels like Edwards misread the room considering the way he portrayed AI and when this kind of movie should have been released.
This movie also uses a common “warrior and child” trope. I feel like this has been used so much that it is getting redundant. It’s been used in “The Mandalorian,” “True Grit,” “Logan,” “The Last of Us” and many more. This trope is just overused and they always seem to have similar endings and are very predictable.
While “The Creator” does have issues that hold it back, it is a solid movie and I enjoyed watching it. It was a fun experience that showed us a new style of robots.
“The Creator” is now playing in theaters.