Mother/Android (2021)

A pregnant woman and her boyfriend seek a safe place to survive the uprising of the androids that have eliminated most of the human world.

Hollywood’s post-apocalyptic attempt to thrill doesn’t hit the spot. I’m going to keep this deliberately short. The good news is Chloë Grace Moretz. Moretz was born to become an actress; thus, she is amazing no matter what kind of film she’s in, even in films such as Shadow in the Cloud (2020), which had a great premise and incredibly poor development (mother against monsters vs. mother against androids).

Everything else is a three-act free-fall to solid concrete. Producer/writer/director Mattson Tomlin’s film does not understand the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stages. Simple as! There is nothing more to it. It is an underwhelming idea of what would have happened if androids rebelled against the species that created them. James Cameron succeeded in providing that version of our future about thirty-eight years ago and has yet to be surpassed.

Admittedly, some handheld shots work really well, but the narrative doesn’t. Other than the androids’ predicament, certain human decisions and actions are far beyond understanding, such as the nine-month pregnant Georgia’s decision to save Sam. That defies all wrongs of decision-making ever made in the human history of wrongs. Yeah, that much sense it makes! And I will not even get started on the countless plotholes. Shame, really. But I insist on Moretz’s fantastic performance (at everything she’s in).

P.S. To every aspiring screenwriter out there – including me: Producers who constantly claim they seek perfection, innovation, and uniqueness in your scripts in order to consider it… they are lying!

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