Runtime: 128 minutes
“Directed” by: The Russo Brothers
Starring: Plenty of actors who I hope were embarrassed to appear in this slop
From: Netflix
No, this slop won’t represent the rest of the programming I’ll view during the time I’m subscribed to Netflix again. A particular film will be viewed late this month but that will be reviewed in a few weeks.
The only reason that a motion picture I scoffed at when it first announced-and oh boy is the premise even worse than I was led to believe for a film concerning robot mascots running around in an alternate future 90’s: on a messageboard I frequent filled with movie discussion both past & present, no one gave a darn enough to even give this a chance, and it was that thread which informed me of this movie’s existence back when the first images were revealed. I took the bullet for those Internet strangers, as they’ve metaphorically done the same for me in the past. Wow, was this bad! Sadly, Electric was as cliché, formulaic, and manipulative as has been said online by a multitude of people.
The entire premise is illogical. Millie Bobby Brown-as the world’s least-credible teenager-searches for her missing genius younger brother in a world where futuristic robots existed since the 1950’s but there was a robot uprising in 1990 so Stanley Tucci created “drones” (humanoid robots) to combat the old robots… Brown and a robot companion search for the brother & meet up with Chris Pratt and his robot companion.
The biggest problem in a stupid, unfunny, mind-numbing picture which has a 90’s mall in Monument Valley (i.e. the middle of nowhere in the desert): if this alternate world has technology to allow for robots in the 50’s, why is EVERY other piece of technology the same? I’m talking desktop computers, an NES, televisions, automobiles, etc. The music is also the exact same. That makes zero sense in the film’s world—of course, for the audience this was done for “nostalgia porn for people that grew up or otherwise lived in the 1990’s.”
That’s the worst aspect, although to reiterate the film is the sort of modern garbage I am happy to usually avoid. Atrocious “humor,” nonsense action, a story spoon-fed to you, dialogue that’s only there to advance the plot for the viewer, etc. Truth be told, this rating would not have been the bottom of the barrel if not for the fact that this cost 320 million dollars! Yeah, there’s always skepticism from me now on what a film actually costs and what’s the truth between the studio’s claims/the truth. However, that figure is truly outrageous. Many have stated this already, but people like DAVID LYNCH weren’t able to do projects at Netflix yet we get this insipid garbage instead & the budget deserves outrage from film fans like us.
Today, I realized the joke was on me: people in that thread actually DID view The Electric State, but perhaps out of embarrassment never made it public until after my bringing it up. Alas… people probably don’t need my opinion to determine whether or not to view a big Netflix release-for myself, though, it’s solidifies that the company still produces product not for me—and besides my general apathy for comic book movies, it’s likely for the best I haven’t tackled the Marvel movies from the Brothers Russo.
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