“TELL YOUR CHILDREN NOT TO WALK MY WAY.
Well, the About box on google spoils this movie within ONE SENTENCE, which is pretty efficient, 10/10, robots will not see humans as inefficient now!
I mean, we could’ve used some sequences where our hero is really looking for human companionship and that dream comes true in some ways, but Hillary Swank’s character is also fairly robotic, and that doesn’t really give us heavy contrast to a robomom.
It feels like perhaps the writers didn’t know how to put a crack in the world so that our hero could start looking at things differently, which is the whole thing with these movies, so they threw in Hillary Swank as the classic character Wrenchie McInTheGears, and we’re off, sort of.
The whole affair ends up taking a lot longer to get where it’s going than is necessary, the part where the audience knows something is up is pretty long, and like a lot of these Netflix flicks, would have made a great 60-minute Twilight Zone or whatever, but maybe 2 hours is pulling that taffy a little thin.
The robot design was rad, though, clearly someone watched Boston Dynamics and was like, ooh, creepy, let’s do that, and it totally works. When Mother runs, it’s weirdly threatening, although golly those hallways seem really long when Mother needs to be somewhere fast…”