If you don't take The Creator too seriously, it's quite entertaining, and that's really all that this film is. Just another piece of entertainment. There's really almost nothing thought provoking within the entire film. It is most reminiscent of a modern Star Wars film, or even in a sense a superhero film in terms of its story. There's basically nothing new here, it's mostly very predictable, yet it's fairly fun and it's definitely a reasonably beautiful film in terms of its visuals.
To me, the best thing about it honestly was that the film portrays American imperialists at least, as having less heart in their behavior than even the robots have. Since there really was nothing challenging in the film, at least it had this to ponder and laugh about. I enjoyed the Americans being portrayed as somewhat Naziesque. The film really says something like humans in general have less heart than the robots, but then goes on to show this only through the American government/military interests. Certainly not all of the humans here are shown to be shallow and/or cold.
You know what has really had the best visuals so far this year however. It's not The Creator, and it's not Mission: Impossible or the Equalizer. It's this seasons episode 2 from the TV show Ride with Norman Reedus. Northern Italy looks absolutely spectacular.
Anyway, this film has a nod to Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner, as it is somewhat about dehumanized humans and humanized androids. The film in fact outright quotes the Tyrell Corporation's slogan, 'More Human Than Human' and even the title 'The Creator' seems to be a nod of sorts I'd say. However this film really isn't in the same league intellectually as anything that well resembles the work of Philip K. Dick. Nonetheless, it's worth a look if you just want a reasonably entertaining sci-fi film, and the theatre is not a bad place to see it considering the visuals.
Fans of the great AI themed TV series, Äkta människor and its UK/American remake, Humans may notice that Gemma Chan ('Maya'), once again plays a lead android character here. As soon as I saw her, I was like, "Mia!". Those were easily two of the best TV series' in the last decade in my view. Certainly they were far more interesting and thought provoking than almost anything we're seeing these days. The word that mostly captures the entertainment world right now seems to be 'safe'. In other words, there's practically no new ideas coming out, no new ways of looking at anything, nothing new to consider. Almost nothing but safe and familiar formulas and approaches. Mostly it's just regurgitated junk as if the industry's just trying to put us mentally to sleep, or dehumanize us. Well, at least Creator is fairly fun and visually impressive junk.
6.5/10.
To me, the best thing about it honestly was that the film portrays American imperialists at least, as having less heart in their behavior than even the robots have. Since there really was nothing challenging in the film, at least it had this to ponder and laugh about. I enjoyed the Americans being portrayed as somewhat Naziesque. The film really says something like humans in general have less heart than the robots, but then goes on to show this only through the American government/military interests. Certainly not all of the humans here are shown to be shallow and/or cold.
You know what has really had the best visuals so far this year however. It's not The Creator, and it's not Mission: Impossible or the Equalizer. It's this seasons episode 2 from the TV show Ride with Norman Reedus. Northern Italy looks absolutely spectacular.
Anyway, this film has a nod to Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner, as it is somewhat about dehumanized humans and humanized androids. The film in fact outright quotes the Tyrell Corporation's slogan, 'More Human Than Human' and even the title 'The Creator' seems to be a nod of sorts I'd say. However this film really isn't in the same league intellectually as anything that well resembles the work of Philip K. Dick. Nonetheless, it's worth a look if you just want a reasonably entertaining sci-fi film, and the theatre is not a bad place to see it considering the visuals.
Fans of the great AI themed TV series, Äkta människor and its UK/American remake, Humans may notice that Gemma Chan ('Maya'), once again plays a lead android character here. As soon as I saw her, I was like, "Mia!". Those were easily two of the best TV series' in the last decade in my view. Certainly they were far more interesting and thought provoking than almost anything we're seeing these days. The word that mostly captures the entertainment world right now seems to be 'safe'. In other words, there's practically no new ideas coming out, no new ways of looking at anything, nothing new to consider. Almost nothing but safe and familiar formulas and approaches. Mostly it's just regurgitated junk as if the industry's just trying to put us mentally to sleep, or dehumanize us. Well, at least Creator is fairly fun and visually impressive junk.
6.5/10.