Jennifer Lopez hasn't had reviews like this since Gigli. Her new movie, Atlas, may be atop the Netflix streaming movie charts. But it's not going to be topping the critics' movie of the year polls. It's currently sitting with a terrible 19% from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a fairly unimpressive 50% from viewers, despite being a curious mix of Terminator and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
According to the New York Times, the sci-fi drama "feels like pure pastiche" at times. "It looks, in a fashion we’re getting used to seeing on the streamers, kind of cheap, dark, plasticky and fake, particularly in the big action sequences." The San Francisco Chronicle isn't impressed either. "Imagine two hours of Lopez trying to deadlift 1,000 pounds, and you’d have an idea of what Atlas is like," it says. But the We're Watching What? podcast says it best with: "Legitimately afraid this film was written by someone being held hostage by a hostile AI".
