Words Robb Sheppard

An artificial intelligence has become too clever for its own good and turned on its creators, leaving humankind facing a life-or-death decision: switch it off or become its victim. No, this isn’t the nightly news, but the new and exciting theoretical sci-fi action-thriller starring Tenet’s John David Washington.

Much too late, humanity moves to defend itself by striking at the AI to take back control. But in the process, they discover that the weapon is merely an AI child struggling to make sense of the world and its place within it. Which of our primal instincts will come out on top? The urge to care or the need for self-preservation?

In holding a Black Mirror to the world we live in and reflecting a frighteningly all too real potential future, The Creator is an intriguing and apposite concept in itself, but it becomes unmissable when you consider it’s directed and co-written by Gareth Edwards.

The British filmmaker’s breakout Monsters did mind-blowing post-apocalyptic survival spectacle on a shoestring budget and Rogue One is widely considered to be the very best of the Disney-era Star Wars. With The Creator sitting somewhere between the two, you can expect a thought-provoking and action-packed exploration of what it is to be human.

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