Summary
Atlas' Rotten Tomatoes score is in, and the Jennifer Lopez movie earns one of the lowest scores of her career. Directed by Brad Peyton,Atlasstars Lopez as Atlas Shepherd, a data analyst who teams with an AI to face off against a rogue robot determined to wipe out humanity. The sci-fi action film marks Lopez’s latest collaboration with Netflix after her 2023 hit,The Mother.
Atlashas now debuted onRotten Tomatoeswith a lackluster score of only 8%with 25 reviews, as of this writing. This score is likely to fluctuate as more reviews are added, but it makes the film the second-lowest-rated movie of Lopez’s acting career after 2003’sGigli. The audience score forAtlas, however, is a more respectable 71%.
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Atlas Continues An Unfortunate Netflix Trend
Recent Action Blockbusters From The Streamer Haven’t Delivered
Atlas' negative reviewsaren’t really an outlier when it comes to a certain kind of Netflix action movie. While the streamer has released some acclaimed films from celebrated filmmakers,some of its big-budget action fare has struggled to make much of an impact.Red Notice, for example, represents one of Netflix’s most expensive movies ever made, but the film has only 37% on Rotten Tomatoes. TheRed Noticereviews criticize the film for its cheap-looking visuals, bland characters, and predictable plotting.
Last year’sHeart of Stonestarring Gal Gadot largely suffered from the same problems. The movie was a big investment, but it has unexciting action sequences and very little depth; it doesn’t really have anything to say about anything. Similarly,The Gray Man’s reviewswere mixed at best and, likeRed Notice, this film cost about $200 million. While a big viewership hit, the movie struggles to ascend beyond just feeling somewhat generic and disposable.
There are outliers, of course. Netflix’s twoExtractionmovies, for example, have been of higher quality than their contemporaries (and also cheaper to make). But even Lopez’s previous movie for the streamer,The Mother, only has a 43% on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience scores for a lot of the above-mentioned films aren’t overly negative, however, suggesting there is enjoyment to be found for some viewers, butAtlascertainly seems like further proof that Netflix has a quality problem when it comes to its blockbuster-style action films.
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Atlas is a 2024 Netflix original movie starring Jennifer Lopez as Atlas Shepherd. Atlas, a data analyst who doesn’t trust AI, who sets out to recover a rogue robot. But when things don’t go according to plan, she is forced to trust AI in order to save humanity.
