Jennifer Lopez makes a rare foray into sci-fi action with this Netflix original, which is essentially a one-woman show with added killer robots, future tech, and space travel. But perhaps fittingly for a film dealing with the dangers of AI, Atlas isn’t all that clever beneath the surface.
Lopez stars as Atlas Shepherd, a gifted data analyst living in a future where a group of robots - led by Harlan, the world’s first AI terrorist (Shang-Chi star Simu Liu) - have turned on humanity. Harboring a grudge against artificial intelligence as well as a mysterious past connection to Harlan, Atlas joins an off-world mission to capture him, working alongside a team of rangers (led by Sterling K. Brown’s Colonel Elias Banks) who are all reliant on their own AI tech.
