Official Trailer
Our Review
- Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, John David Washington
- September 28th 2023
- Gareth Edwards
The Creator stars John David Washington as Josh, a US soldier who battles a powerful artificial intelligence.
After directing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, possibly the most critically acclaimed of that franchise’s new instalments, director Gareth Edwards has returned to the science-fiction genre with The Creator.
Starring John David Washington it’s a very different beast to Rogue One‘s blockbuster space opera.
This is a film that’s got grand ambitions and wants to grapple with one of the great questions of our age – Artificial intelligence (AI) and its moral and practical implications.
Washington is excellent as Josh, a US Army special forces officer fighting in a complicated war against a powerful artificial intelligence that has detonated a nuclear weapon in Los Angeles and taken over much of Asia – integrating with but dominating its human population.
Having been sent undercover behind enemy lines, Josh has fallen deeply in love with Maya (Gemma Chan), a robotics genius who might lead Josh and US forces...
