Atlas is a science fiction action film, directed by Brad Peyton and written by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite. Atlas features a highly skilled counterterrorism analyst, who harbors a profound skepticism towards artificial intelligence. My passion for science fiction made this film a great choice to get my fantasy on. I really enjoyed Atlas.
In the year 2043, humanoid artificial intelligence terrorist Harlan Shepherd (Simu Liu) leads a war of machines against humans, which leaves three million people dead. The military forces of a new International Coalition of Nations (ICN) win a string of victories against Harlan and force him to flee into outer space but not without a promise that he would return sometime in the future.
Twenty-eight years later, Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), an analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence and the daughter of Harlan’s designer, searches for the fugitive. After one of Harlan’s AI agents is captured and interrogated, Atlas discovers Harlan has escaped to a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy. A mission to find and capture Harlan is headed up by Colonel Elias Banks (Sterling K. Brown) along with a huge military presence and Atlas, who insists she tags along for the capture.
Retrieving Harlans CPU to find out how he was able to program all AIs to rebel against mankind was the original mission but Harlan was too powerful and too cleaver to be captured. Watching the mission unfold was exciting. The special effects were well executed and the acting was brilliant. The plot was more of the same kind of playbook we’ve come to know but still interesting. At times, Jennifer was a little overbearing and Harlan will make you hate AIs. The overall theme is to tear down Earth and rebuild it into a near-perfect planet. While there isn’t much else for an AI to entertain as their mission, I wish someone would come up with something more creative. Atlas was not well received by critics, but was successful on Netflix, reaching the platform’s Top 10 list in 93 countries and was placed at number one in 71 countries. By June 5, 2024, Atlas accumulated 60 million global views (or 119.4 million viewing hours), making it the fourth film that stars Lopez to top the streaming charts in two years. Atlas is only streaming on Netflix (free if you are a subscriber) — Check It Out!
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 18% of 101 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The website’s consensus reads: “Jennifer Lopez admirably does her best to shoulder Atlas’s seismic scope, but this sci-fi spectacle buckles under the weight of a script whose intelligence is merely artificial.”
CAROL's WORLDS 
I enjoyed this one too Carol and would give it the same rating.
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