Netflix likes to spend high sums for opulent in -house productions, but The Electric State tops everything. The upcoming sci-fi blockbuster from the Avengers 3 and Avengers 4 directors Joe and Anthony Russo is said to have devoured incredible $ 320 million production costs and is therefore the most expensive Netflix film in history.
Before the release next week are now First reviews of The Electric State Published and the majority is significantly negative. We present you a selection of it.
The Electric State Reviews tear expensive Netflix blockbusters
In a dystopian future, robots live in a desert -like ghetto created by humans. The young Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) is looking for her lost brother Christopher (Woody Norman) and meets the Kid driver Keat (Chris Pratt). He could possibly Bring into the forbidden robot zone. People like unscrupulous Ethan Skate (Stanley Tucci) want to prevent this.
According to the criticism of the British Guardian, this story should only produce soulless spectacles in the Electric State, according to the criticism of the British Guardian:
The Electric State is a fundamentally unsatisfactory and confused film, even if you ignore the déjà-vu. Robots are good … And Ethan Skates Robot Technology is bad? Die robot? Are they all just wearing out and rusting (which probably solves the robot problem of humanity) or do they live forever or do somehow multiply? The film indicates an answer, but all the sneaky, satirical fun, which is implied when it comes to people against robots, is gone. There is a gallery of crazy individuals of all forms and sizes that offer synchronous spokesmen like Brian Cox, Woody Harrelson, Alan Tudyk and Colman Domingo. But there is no soul, no originalityjust a huge, colorful bunch of digital content.
The Variety criticism of Courtney Howard sounds similarly negative. Above all, it criticizes how Simon Stålenhag’s book template:
The directors Joe and Anthony Russo as well as the authors Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely surprisingly underestimate the blueprint of their starting material when it comes to character development and immersive structure of a world. Is it amazing that this material didn’t fit better. They provide a superficial representation of sibling relationships as well as the topics related to tech panics and corporate offenses, and their additional contributions lack swing or emotional response.
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The most devastating, however, sounds the indiewire criticism by David Ehrlich:
To be honest, there is not a single laugh – not even a tired smile
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In this relentlessly stale ordealthat does for science fiction adventure comedies that the Gray has done for action thrillers: absolutely nothing. Instead, the film is wrapped into a thin layer of artificial fun, which continues to the extremely predictable, winking final setting, although no part of The Electric State manages to keep up with the creative thrill of his explanatory assembly.
Only minimally positive sounds of the inverse criticism of Dais Johnston:
Although it looks like a mixture of Guardians of the Galaxy and the worst parts of Ready Player One, people with moderate to severe Marvel fatigue could find something here. […] And the aesthetics may have deviated from the starting material, but at least most scenes take place in light daylight. You can see everything that happens, but whether it is interested or not is a different story. How does the Electric State start at Netflix?
From the March 14th 2025 Can you take a picture of the sci-fi blockbuster yourself. Then the Electric State streams at Netflix in the subscription.