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THE CREATOR – Hans Zimmer
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
The Creator is a science fiction epic from writer/director Gareth Edwards, set in a world where artificial intelligence has become wholly integrated into society, in the form of both robots and human/A.I. hybrids known as ‘sims’. However, after the A.I. detonates a nuclear warhead in Los Angeles, essentially destroying the city, the world descends into war and chaos. Years later, US army special forces agent Joshua is recruited to hunt down and kill ‘the creator,’ the elusive architect of a mysterious new type of advanced A.I. weapon that has the power to end the war and destroy humanity. However, things change for Joshua when he discovers that this ‘super weapon’ is actually a genetically modified child, who just wants humans and sims to live in peace. The film stars John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Alison Janney, and newcomer Madeleine Yuna Voyles as the mysterious child, and it’s mostly good. It has been marketed as a cerebral, ambitious new science fiction story, and while it is certainly visually and technically impressive, I found it to be a weird conceptual mishmash derivative of other, better films: one part Blade Runner, one part Apocalypse Now, with some other Vietnam allegory thrown in for good measure. Unusually, the central relationship between Joshua and the mystical child actually kept reminding me of the one between Eddie Murphy and The Golden Child from the 1986 film of the same name, which I’m sure is not what the filmmakers envisioned. I liked it, but I wanted to like it more than I did. Read more…
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