FILM
THE CREATOR
John David Washington’s Joshua is faced with a dilemma.
Friend or foe? Madeleine Yuna Voyles as Alphie.
Ken Watanabe as Harun.
IF A MACHINE CAN LEARN THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE, MAYBE WE CAN TOO
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 12A / 133 MINS
DIRECTOR Gareth Edwards
CAST John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney
PLOT After a nuclear bomb is set off in Los Angeles, America bans artificial intelligence. The super-continent of New Asia, meanwhile, is all for AI. And so war begins.
THERE IS TECH to die for in The Creator. On every level. Boasting some of the best sci-fi design in years, there is personality to match each invention — most of which is programmed to kill. We have robot cops, 50 per cent humanoid, 100 per cent total bastards, running amok, stumbling about witlessly when sliced in half. There is the NOMAD, America’s mammoth spaceship, a foreboding, godlike presence, a bird of prey