The Creator

I'm half tempted to give this full marks just for daring to play Radiohead's Everything in Its Right Place during your typical military in dropship scene. Anyway my boy Gareth knocked out another cracking piece of scifi. You really don't mind when a director takes a few years off and comes back with something like this. There's certainly a fair amount of Rogue One, Blade Runner and Terminator in the mix, the latter of which he takes the Judgement Day plot and turns it on its head defying expectations where I assumed it was going just due to the tropes of the genre. There's also a lot of stuff on screen for 80mill in comparison to other recent effects heavy films. Gets you wondering if budgets elsewhere escalate to $200 mill mark due to talent demands or that something like this has less behind the scenes VFX artists but take longer to bake? I dunno. Either way, check it out. The trailer gives too much away (as always my opinion) however there's plenty more that isn't shown. NB. Watch out for the Scarif Easter egg

I was expecting so much more from the movie. Having such an interesting topic to treat, the story didn't say anything new. I give it a 5 because the visual effects were nicely done, and the image and actuation weren't bad. However I think it's a clear representation of how important are the scrip writers and it's a demonstration of their strike in Hollywood. The plot and argument didn't had any sense along the movie, and I could not understand why the characters behaved the way they do, as their dialogue is almost null.