‘The Electric State’ review: Netflix spent $320M on a movie you’ll hate

nypost.com:

(sci-fi violence/action, language and some thematic material). On Netflix.We’ve really been sold a pig in a poke with directors Anthony and Joe Russo.In 2019, their entertaining three-hour Marvel epic “Avengers: Endgame” deservingly became the second highest-grossing movie of all time.That was a blip, it turns out.

Since then, the brothers have been on a diabolical mission to deliver some of the worst and priciest movies of the past six years.The latest, “The Electric State” on no-good Netflix, cost a staggering $320 million.

That means it’s the 13th most expensive film ever made. A remarkable feat, considering the sci-fi adventure is a dreadful and derivative slog and the streamer’s latest feature-length embarrassment.In the first few minutes, when a 1990s-era President Clinton enters and announces, “As of today, we are at war with the robot population,” we know we’re in for a big, dumb waste of time.I kid you not, a narrator says that in this altered timeline, Walt Disney invented robots.

Then, humans enslaved them and the machines revolted. See? “The Terminator” was Walt’s fault! Humans won the war because Stanley Tucci invented android avatars that people can pilot like drones.The plot is a watered-down grab-bag of old, tired ideas.Two years later, Millie Bobby Brown, with an unchanging expression of distraught alarm, plays rebel Michelle.