Atlas
Seen it?2024 | 118 min | Science Fiction, Action
Weeknight WatchWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
With just 18% on Rotten Tomatoes and soft box office, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for sci-fi fans and action fans. If you loved The Creator, start here. Audiences love it more than critics do: a crowd-pleaser first.
- The mood
- Exciting.
- The pace
- Fast-moving, at 1 hr 58 min.
- What might put you off
- Rated PG-13: peril. Probably too much for younger kids.
- Critics were cooler on it than audiences.
A brilliant counterterrorism analyst with a deep distrust of AI discovers it might be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsWeak
18% on Rotten Tomatoes, 37 on Metacritic
- AudiencesSolid
6.6 out of 10
- AwardsWeak
0 wins and 1 nomination from smaller awards and festivals. Plus: Nominated for 1 Razzie, the "worst of the year" awards.
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a solid audience; spent 4 weeks in Netflix's global Top 10; interest faded quickly after launch
- Buzz & cultural impactSolid
About 150K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Brad Peyton
- Jennifer LopezAtlas Shepherd
- Simu LiuHarlan Shepherd
- Sterling K. BrownColonel Elias Banks
- Gregory James CohanSmith (voice) / Dhiib Pilot
- Abraham PopoolaCasca Decius
- Lana ParrillaVal Shepherd
- Mark StrongGeneral Jake Boothe
- Briella GuizaYoung Atlas Shepherd
- Adia Smith-ErikssonRanger West
- Logan HuntRanger Hughes