‘The Electric State’ Review: The Russo Brothers Enlist Chris Pratt And Millie Bobby Brown In A Robot Uprising For Netflix’s Latest Big Budget Sci- Fi Extravaganza
deadline.comNetflix teams with Joe and Anthony Russo again for a large scale blockbuster-style sci fi adventure that seems tailor made for IMAX, except you will be watching it on your couch.
Hopefully your TV is really big. With elements of 2023’s The Creator, 1986’s Short Circuit, and the wondrous Wall-E among others, Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel serves as a starting point for screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeeley and this humongous big screen adaptation set, like the book, in an alternate version of the 1990’s where Bill Clinton as President engages in an all out war against a robot uprising.
Humans are being attacked but it is the robots who had all the humanity as it turns out, but lost everything and now relegated to the sidelines in a world that once was an idyllic place for them.
Now humans live in a virtual reality world much of the time and that is how we meet a teenager, Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) not going along with the crowd, refusing the dictum to behave like all the other students in her high school, and still mourning the loss of her brother Christopher.
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