2025 Catch-Up: The Electric State (2025)

 As the Year approaches its end, I need to catch up on some of the Movies that I've missed for various reasons.

Let's start with the latest from the Russo Brothers and a Film that cost over $300 million!

It is...

Here comes the Exposition Dump.  Are you ready?

In this alternate version of the 1990s, we had robots.  This didn't go as well as the '80s made it seem like it would be though.

They revolted and a Jeff Bezos-wannabe ended it with new technology.

Now it is 1994 and Millie here is reunited with her dead brother in the form of a robot.

I didn't even mention the deep fake Bill Clinton.

She leaves her home with it/him and runs across Chris Pratt as...well, Chris Pratt.

Well, he's a mix of himself and Han Solo.

They have to go into the Wasteland where the robots were exiled into after the War.

The villain- Stanley Tucci- sends The Marshall- Giancarlo Esposito- to get them back, since the kid's brain apparently powers his network.

In a fantasy World, this is a Screen Cap from an X-Men Film.

One of the few times you see the real Giancarlo.

The Wasteland is full of half-broken and crazy robots.

There are some good ones too, but do they good ones outweigh the crazy ones?

In a sentence I never expected to write, Robot Mr. Peanut helps lead the revolt against the corrupt CEO.

There's also Brian Cox as a Baseball Robot and more.

This is not Satire.

To see how it plays out, stream it now.

A Film that looks gorgeous, but is there anything underneath the surface?

The Film is what I like to call Cinematic Gumbo.
It is a mix of ideas, concepts and straight-up visuals from various Films, Shows and Games.

You get Robots out of the Fallout Series.  You get the entire Plot of Surrogates is stuck into here.  You get the nostalgia mining from Ready Player One.  Alan Silvestri tosses in a few parts into the Score that is right out of the Avengers Films.

Hell, Stanley Tucci is literally just his Character from Transformers: Age of Extinction!

This one is alright.  I just wish that its satirical elements were treated as such.

Instead, we get everything playing straight and it just feels so soulless.

Why did you do this one so dirty?

An AI image for this one is fitting.

A Film that looks really, really good.  Maybe put that much love and affection into the Writing next time.