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The Creator review: A mishmash of science fiction ideas

Set during a futuristic war between humans and artificial intelligence, The Creator is nothing if not spectacular. Shame it is cobbled together from the tropes of other science fiction movies, says Simon Ings

By Simon Ings

4 October 2023

The Creator All images ?Disney. Editorial use only.

The Creator’s great strength is its futuristic South-East Asian setting

Disney

The Creator
Directed by Gareth Edwards
In cinemas

A MAN loses his wife in a war with robots. The machines didn’t kill her, human military ineptitude did. She was pregnant with his child. The man (John David Washington, whose heart-on-sleeve performance can’t quite pull The Creator out of the fire) has nothing to live for, until it turns out his wife (Gemma Chan) is alive after all, and working with the robots. She has built them a weapon –…

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