ELECTRIC STATE had potential

I really didn't know this movie existed, but one day my son was watching cartoons on Netflix and saw this movie at the beginning. He told me about it and said he wanted to watch it with me and my husband. I basically watched this movie without knowing anything about the context, but when it started, it looked pretty interesting.
THE ELECTRIC STATE
This is a film adapted in 1994, but it has an interesting twist: in this world, advanced technologies exist, and it seems that robots came to life and went to war with humans, which the humans won, ending with the robots being isolated in a kind of prison. We are also introduced to Michelle, an orphan girl who seems to live with an adoptive father? And who seems to be... violent? Michelle suffered an accident with her family that left her completely alone. Of all her family members, her brother was apparently more important than everyone else, and Michelle lives with that pain, which creates conflicts in her life. She also refuses to use the advanced technology that exists at this time, especially at her school. One day, Michelle encounters a robot that tries to give her a message, and we discover that this robot did not appear by magic; it has a purpose and a secret that only Michelle can know.
This film had an interesting plot but unfortunately ended up being a disaster. After finding out a little about the film, I saw that they spent $300 million producing it, which I imagine they used for the actors and the special effects for the robots. Otherwise, I don't know where that money went, since the plot is extremely awful. Honestly, this film made me very sleepy. Everything happens so fast that you don't have time to connect with the characters. They try to make you sympathize with Michelle and her brother, but... The brother appears for about 30 minutes in the film, at the beginning in a super short scene where they talk about his brother's abysmal intelligence, brief memories during various parts of the film, and almost at the end of the film. The movie isn't funny. It has extremely silly jokes and a story where we never see Michelle's parents. She never remembers them, only her brother, as if her parents had never existed.
Of the entire film, I think this was the only character I liked and who made me laugh. The rest left a lot to be desired. Chris Pratt occasionally makes a joke or two that barely elicited a slight smile from me, but I really didn't understand what purpose this character served in the plot other than to accompany the protagonist. Lately, they've been repeating this formula a lot in movies, and it's getting really boring: the protagonist must go to a dangerous place, meets random people who decide to help (usually these people are characters who try too hard to be funny and silly), at some point they have a silly conflict, and finally everything is magically resolved. Not to mention that I'm tired of seeing movies where some of the main characters DIE and are magically resurrected, a repetitive formula that is turning cinema into copy and paste.
By the way, when I saw the great Gus Fring in this movie, I had some faith in it, but the story is so bad that no one can save it, ha ha ha.
On the positive side, I think the robot designs are incredible, and I feel that they look quite realistic and very aesthetic for the time. I have no complaints in that regard; in fact, it was one of the things that caught my attention the most when I saw the movie poster. However, even so, it doesn't do justice to such a poorly executed plot.
In my opinion, this is a rather boring film. The action scenes lose their spark when you see Millie Bobby Brown running at a snail's pace in situations where you need to flee quickly. There is little time to sympathize with anyone, and I would even dare to say that it is difficult to empathize with the robots, as we are only shown their story at the beginning, like a documentary of what happened. Michelle's brother doesn't convey anything, and I really feel that money, talent, and a promising idea were wasted.
Wow, what a great and detailed review! I honestly had no idea about this movie, but just seeing the robot designs and the retro-futuristic 1994 premise had already caught my attention. But what a bummer to read that it's a disaster in the end, and with a $300 million budget!
Too bad for the cast, because having Millie, Chris Pratt, and Gus Fring himself and still not being saved... speaks volumes. Thanks for the heads-up, you just saved me a few hours of my life! Hahaha.
En la medida en que iba leyendo me fui entusiasmando hasta que... jajajaja, llegó la parte horrible y bue... otra película donde se invierte más de lo que se gana. Gracias por tu reseña. Saludos.
Jajaja no es nada nuevo en estos tiempos, esta dificil conseguir peliculas buenas. Gracias por comentar