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  • Not gonna lie, it was definitely an entertaining movie. Chris Pratt spends 95% of the movie in a chair trying to prove himself innocent in front of an AI judge. He’s not presented as a likeable character and that’s an interesting premise - he’s a violent and drunk man who’s disconnected from his family and you are not supposed to like him initially. The presentation is a bit like War of the Worlds (being mostly a one-room movie), but it’s done in a much more competent way.

    But this movie has very weird undertones. The police force is presented as an all-good entity with super-cool tech like flying drones and it’s totally fine that an AI judge can just hack everyone’s phones and get access to their private conversations, audios and videos or use the feed of your neighbors’ bird feeding camera to see who drives around your house - and that’s rarely addressed in a skeptical way. I only remember a short altercation between the father and his daughter, when he accessed a private conversation with her boyfriend and it’s done like “Oh yeah, that was bad, but I need to defend myself” - “Alright then”.

    I did not see a “Sponsored by Palantir” part in the credits, but the movie feels like that should definitely be there. Also, my local cinema only showed this in 3D and the effects are very weak and absolutely not worth it. They do things like putting up a circle in the middle of the screen and zoom in a bit (on flying drone footage) and that’s it.

    Near the end of the movie they also put in this overdone trope of a human convicing a machine with their feelings and the AI judge glitches and starts to feel bad for the family of the father, which didn’t work for me at all. Really felt a bit like a propaganda action movie. But i still enjoyed it, it works for what they set it up to do.

    Just one more note: I think when they started to produce this, we were still miles away from the current AI slop cycle and it was still new and exciting technology. This movie coming out in 2026 has already aged it poorly, because everyone hates AI now - and there just wasn’t a lot of interest for it anymore. Only two other people in the cinema decided to watch this.











  • The Legend of Ochi.

    The trailer made it look like a great indie-fantasy movie with Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson. But the actual movie is full of AI-generated environments, the acting is subpar and Dafoe and Watson don’t have a lot of screentime.

    Sometimes I really question my AAA24 membership. 😅

    Megalopolis was equally disappointing. Granted, the movie has some amazing VFX and practical effects, so they cut all of the best shots into the trailer and made this trainwreck look competent and interesting. The actual movie then felt like a fever dream, you can really see respected actors like Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel struggle with their own script. Plus all of the really bad VFX shots that did not make it into the trailer, of course.

    At least we got the “Get back to the club” meme out of it.