Meh.
Jennifer Lopez was about as fine as you could expect from a TV star actress. Except that she's a movie star actress. As such her performance was sub-par... mostly a lot of weeping and teeth gnashing.
The plot of a human grudgingly working hand-in-hand with an AI isn't especially new. We get a lot of the usual dead-pan humour from the AI... none of which lands in a big way.
I was more impressed by Simu Liu's villainous Harlan Shepard. He's known mostly for just two big-budget roles, neither of which were particularly demanding. This role didn't require much either -- he's an android after all -- but he still does a good job oozing menace.
The science is way wonky. A planet in the Andromeda galaxy would be over 2.5 MILLION light years away. Why would the villain travel so far through inter-galactic space to plot a rebellion back on earth. How did he, or the military squad, get there? Even traveling at 10000 times the speed of light the trip would take several human lifetimes. Communications between the military operation and earth? Forget it.
The worst part though was the extensive use of CGI. At times it looks like you are watching cut scenes from a video game. It goes on too long. There are too many moments of "We're too late!" to "No, wait we've got this one last trick up our sleeve!" It's fine for a single watch, but you'll be forgetting most of it within a day of watching it.
Jennifer Lopez was about as fine as you could expect from a TV star actress. Except that she's a movie star actress. As such her performance was sub-par... mostly a lot of weeping and teeth gnashing.
The plot of a human grudgingly working hand-in-hand with an AI isn't especially new. We get a lot of the usual dead-pan humour from the AI... none of which lands in a big way.
I was more impressed by Simu Liu's villainous Harlan Shepard. He's known mostly for just two big-budget roles, neither of which were particularly demanding. This role didn't require much either -- he's an android after all -- but he still does a good job oozing menace.
The science is way wonky. A planet in the Andromeda galaxy would be over 2.5 MILLION light years away. Why would the villain travel so far through inter-galactic space to plot a rebellion back on earth. How did he, or the military squad, get there? Even traveling at 10000 times the speed of light the trip would take several human lifetimes. Communications between the military operation and earth? Forget it.
The worst part though was the extensive use of CGI. At times it looks like you are watching cut scenes from a video game. It goes on too long. There are too many moments of "We're too late!" to "No, wait we've got this one last trick up our sleeve!" It's fine for a single watch, but you'll be forgetting most of it within a day of watching it.
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