Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Atlas and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this SciFi Action movie, you might wish to skip this post.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I watched Atlas, a SciFi movie featuring a human heroine and an AI mech body suit with his own personality.
I wouldn’t watch it again but it was entertaining.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby’s favorite part was when the heroine admitted to not liking anyone, saying that people just disappoint. He teased me that the heroine sounded like me.
(grins)
My biggest issue with Atlas is…
The villain is ridiculously sexy. Simu Liu is hot as he is but they gave him cyborg eyes and… (bites fist). My stars. I wanted to lick the screen.
His motivations are also understandable. Humans are f*cking up the world, creating misery and killing all other species. He wants to reduce the human population and put AI in charge to curb our rather violent tendencies. Which…well…it isn’t a bad long term plan for the planet.
This combination caused me to be conflicted. While I didn’t cheer for the villain, I also didn’t want him hurt or defeated. I definitely didn’t want him killed. My ideal resolution is he is sent to a planet where he can build more of his kind, protect the locals (likely from species like us), and find some sort of peace.
Yes, I’ve rewritten the ending in my brain. I wasn’t happy with the one provided.
The lesson here is…
Don’t create a villain your audience or reader doesn’t want to see defeated.
