"The Creator" the most beautiful terribly written movie I've seen in maybe ever, (spoilers inside)

Absolutely gorgeous, every scene, every location, all of it... just fantastic visual feast.

The main plot, simple and predictable but not bad. But holy shit there are so many needless plot holes its confusing. I'm blown away by it.

  • US Space station that shoots missiles (with complete impunity, just show missile defense systems failing to hit them at least) and if its lost the entire war is lost... uhhh ok I guess? It can easily just hover over the airspace of "New Asia" with impunity, yet somehow they are a huge threat to the US? Heck you could have just flown a B-17 and carpet bombed whatever you wanted.
  • The US is somehow at huge danger of all these Asian AI that are literally do nothing to anyone. There is no war going on in the US, everything is otherwise peaceful everywhere.
  • The nuke that supposedly galvanized all this fear of AI, is with one sentence in the movie said to be "a programming error and not by the AI". We never hear anything ever about it from anyone else, was it true? was it not? who knows?
  • The cute kid that is this terrifying weapon literally just turns the station off for a few seconds.... and that was it. There are a million more interesting ways they could have written that.
  • US invading ground force is a tiny unit... ok sure, but then later they should up with a tank the size of a skyscraper. Also their first ground attack on the facility has zero defenses and the US that goes in there just shoots civilian humans on sight... leading into where they target the missiles at the end, literally just giant mega cities full of civilians?

The thing is, all these things could easily be just written better. But you can't just have the US just be ok with indiscriminately bombing millions of civilians without at least a footnote.

I'll just end on saying, I'll happily watch high budget but otherwise "terrible" sci-fi just because its sci-fi. I enjoy it! My issue here, is this actually had the grounds to be a great movie, but at every turn the actions just didn't carry weight because they lacked context to support them.

Still worth seeing though!