In a dystopian future, the war between humans and artificial intelligence rages on. When a former soldier, Joshua (John David Washington) is tasked with finding and destroying both The Creator of the AI and the weapon that can win the war for them, he soon finds that he and those he is fighting aren’t so different.
There are a number of times in which The Creator is difficult to follow, and much of that has to do with the transition between time. The back and forth between past and present does become a tad difficult to understand from time to time, and there are instances when up to ten seconds are lost trying to figure out when we exist in the film. The Creator struggles in these moments, and there were times when I fell behind for a moment and then had to play catch up. Beyond that, however, the film is incredibly convoluted, and the narrative itself is quite challenging. I was lost from time to time, and that’s never good for a film.
The Creator is a combination of so many films that have come before: Tenet, What Happened to Monday?, District 9, Rogue One, and even i, Robot. All of these films converge to become The Creator, and while that doesn’t necessarily make the film unsuccessful, a little more originality could have significantly helped the film. I won’t lie, though, it was nice seeing bits and pieces of films that I enjoy strewn throughout this production, but it still lacks originality, something so precious these days in Hollywood.
I can’t quite make out what the tone of the film was meant to be. Sure, we get instances of intense drama and hardship, and the emotional relevance in those moments are simply brilliant. Writer-Director Gareth Edwards does a spectacular job of ensuring that there is emotion present in The Creator, but I’m not sure that he allows it to linger as long as it should have. Comedy plays a major role in developing the characters in The Creator, and there are certainly times in which that comedy is welcome and plays an appropriate role. However, there are many times when the tension and the drama is diluted by gratuitous humor. I can’t wrap my head around how or why Edwards or Writer Chris Weitz felt that this would help the film. It steals from some of the most intense moments, ruining some powerful parts of the film–and this left me scratching my head time and time again throughout the course of the film.
With all of the negatives that exist, with all of the confusion that rattled around my brain, the special effects and set design made up for most of it. The Creator relies heavily on these aspects of filmmaking, and there’s absolutely no way that it finds success without these things being near perfect. I actually think that this part of the film is perfect, fully immersing viewers in a world completely unlike the one that we know, and allowing us to understand the full scope of this world (maybe not the story, but the world). The Creator is one of the more aesthetically pleasing films that I’ve seen in a long time, and that’s compared to the likes of Barbie and Dune. It captivates audiences, and it resonates with them every step of the way in this regard.
The Creator is flawed in a number of ways, but there’s enough emotion present in the film to pull viewers in, and the beautiful visuals make the film incredibly interesting. I don’t think that this film delivers like I had hoped, but I can’t get over how beautiful it is, and by the time The Creator had ended, while I still had some questions, I was floored in some ways by Edwards’ finished product.
Directed by Gareth Edwards.
Written by Gareth Edwards & Chris Weitz.
Starring John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Amar Chadha-Patel, Marc Menchaca, etc.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐½/10
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