Atlas movie2024 Atlas is a 2024 American science fiction action film directed by Brad Peyton and written by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite. The film stars Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, and Mark Strong. AtlasRelease posterDirected byBrad PeytonWritten byLeo SardarianAron Eli ColeiteProduced byBrad PeytonJeff FiersonJoby HaroldTory TunnellJennifer LopezElaine Goldsmith-ThomasBenny MedinaGreg BerlantiSarah SchechterStarringJennifer LopezSimu LiuSterling K. BrownMark StrongCinematographyJohn SchwartzmanEdited byBob DucsayMusic byAndrew LockingtonProductioncompaniesASAP EntertainmentSafehouse PicturesNuyorican ProductionsBerlanti-Schechter FilmsDistributed byNetflixRelease dateMay 24, 2024Running time120 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish A co-production of ASAP Entertainment, Safehouse Pictures, Nuyorican Productions and Berlanti-Schechter Films, Atlas was released by Netflix on May 24, 2024. It received generally negative reviews from critics. Atlas Shepherd, an analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, searches for fugitive AI terrorist Harlan, who 28 years ago led an AI rebellion that left 3 million dead before fleeing into outer space. After one of Harlan’s agents is captured and interrogated, Atlas discovers that Harlan has escaped to a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, and insists that she accompanies the military mission to find and capture him. Before the mission can launch from orbit, the ship carrying the mech-equipped military rangers is attacked by Harlan’s drones. In order to survive, Atlas is forced to enter a mech herself and falls to the planet as the ship is destroyed. Atlas manages to gain basic control of the mech despite her distrust of the onboard AI, who introduces itself as Smith. Atlas orders Smith to head to the planned drop point, where she finds the rest of the rangers dead. She reluctantly agrees to directly interface her mind with Smith, allowing for greater control of the mech. As they journey towards a rescue pod, Atlas and Smith begin to bond, and she reveals to him that her mother was the one who created Harlan. Although running low on power, Atlas convinces Smith to head to Harlan’s base in order to tag it for a long-range strike. However, after placing a beacon at the base, Smith is hacked and disabled. Atlas is captured and brought to Harlan, who plans to destroy most of humanity and give the chosen survivors a chance to thrive under AI guidance. To do so, Harlan had lured the military to his planet so he could steal a ship and a carbon bomb which will burn Earth’s atmosphere. After extracting security codes from her brain to get past Earth’s defences, Harlan leaves Atlas to die with Colonel Banks, the only other survivor of the mission. After Banks gives her his mech neural interface device, Atlas remotely reactivates Smith, who comes to their rescue. Atlas further reveals to Smith that Harlan killed her mother after he convinced a young Atlas into interfacing her mind with his, making him aware of humanity’s fear of AI. After Smith helps Atlas overcome her guilt for her actions, Atlas and Smith fight their way out and destroy Harlan’s ship before defeating him in hand-to-hand combat. A heavily damaged Smith shuts down before Atlas is rescued. Back on Earth, Atlas is informed that Harlan’s CPU is being analyzed. Atlas, now a ranger, later tests the newest model of mech, created with her suggested modifications. As she boots up the new mech, its AI is implied to be Smith, suggesting that his programming has survived. Cast Jennifer Lopez as Atlas Shepherd Simu Liu as Harlan Shepherd Sterling K. Brown as Colonel Elias Banks Gregory James Cohan as the voice of Smith Abraham Popoola as Casca Decius Lana Parrilla as Val Shepherd Mark Strong as General Jake Boothe Production The screenplay was originally written by Leo Sardarian, and Aron Eli Coleite performed rewrites. Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, and Abraham Popoola joined the cast in August 2022. In September 2022, it was reported that Lana Parrilla had joined the cast. Principal photography began on August 26, 2022, in Los Angeles and New Zealand, and wrapped on November 26. Release Atlas was released by Netflix on May 24, 2024. Reception On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 16% of 63 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The website’s consensus reads: “Jennifer Lopez admirably does her best to shoulder Atlas‘s seismic scope, but this sci-fi spectacle buckles under the weight of a script whose intelligence is merely artificial.” Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 38 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating “generally unfavorable” reviews.