The Russo Brothers, those money-making MCU maestros and their mega-budgeted sci-fi adventure, "The Electric State," are receiving much unkind criticism from fans and pundits, some of it possibly deserved and some unfairly served up in a complicated miasma of vitriolic opinion. Ah, such is the state of modern Hollywood these days as it seems there's always misdirected anger afoot aimed at most popular entertainment.
Whatever your opinion is of Netflix's loose $320 million adaptation of visionary Swedish artist and author Simon Stålenhag’s 2018 illustrated novel of a war-torn America in an alternative 1990s where robots and automatons of all stripes have revolted in a battle for Earthly freedom, its striking visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic do make for a uniquely fascinating watch.
