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I went to the cinema with high hopes - a movie from the director of rogue one, a movie which I liked.

In the current destruction of franchises like star trek and star wars, good sci-fi is hard to come by.

Sadly this movie does not change this. The movie is utter gargabe and is one of those movies where the creative had some ideas for cool scenes that HAD TO HAPPEN no matter the cost. Very much like James Cameron's Avatar 2, which was utter trite garbage as well, but was very pretty to lok at and at least managed a minimal emotional involvement from the audience, thanks to better directing and of course, Sigourney Weaver.

Now, I will not tear down multiple individual scenes of "The creator", allthough it oh-so-much deserves this, that it is best left to the internet critics. However, I will spoil one scene from the movie and compare it to a scene from "Rogue one".

Rogue one ends with the death of Jyn and Andor. It is a gripping moment (at least for me) as the so hard struggled for mission was successful, yet ends in death. Go watch Rogue one, it is much better star wars than episode 7-9.

Now, in "The creator" there apparently exist a technology for targetting guided anti-personnel missiles which requires to paint a MASSIVE RETICULE at the floor of the target acquired. Let that sink in for a minute.

During an attack of "the bad guys" on the AI-harbouring "good guys" an AI soldier is being acquired as target and stops when running for cover as he sees inside the building he wanted to enter a human mother with her children hunkering down. Since the AI soldier knows he is doomed anyway thanks to the video-game mechanic reticule, which tells him when he has to dodge, he does not enter the building and chooses death/detruction for himself. Either that, or he mistimed his dodge, lol scrub.

This is meant to invoke the feeling of a noble sacrifice, HOWEVER, due to the targetting reticule confirming his impending death, this is only the logical choice. Compare that to HOW MUCH MORE meaningful the AI-soldier's choice to not enter cover to protect the human family would have been, had he NOT KNOWN that he is marked for deletion.

I compare this scene to the death of Jyn and Andor to show that the director KNOWS how to create emotional stakes and to show how UTTERLY TERRIBLE the writing in "the creator" is.

The entire movie is full of this nonsense - undermining it's own emotional stakes, illogical decisions and Video-game mechanics that should not be in a scifi-movie that wants to be taken seriously - all this combined with absolutely wooden delivery of emotional stakes from the protagonist and the child-actor makes "The creator" a waste of time and a fitting movie in the current timeline of creative crisis of terrible writing, or outright omission of that in favour of showing isolated "cool stuff" that doesn't meld together at all.

It portrais the "bad guys" in this movie of capable of owning a TRILLION DOLLAR NUCLEAR ARMS CARRYING SPACE STATION IN LOW EARTH ORBIT, but at the same time to EFFING studid to check the "pulse" of a machine, which is said to DESTROY the entire war effort and the united states themselves! EFF OFF, there are not enough curses and slurs to this amount of tidepod-licking stupidity and not the father-child relationship trying to be built up between the soldier and the AI-robot child can save anything, as it is wooden, devoid of emotion and just does not work.

Steven Spielberg admitted to "going too far", but obviously noone has learned from this to make it a team effort and instead lets creative egomanics rum rampart with the studio's money.

To hell with this movie and everyone who thinks the movie's visual are nice (which they are, no objection here) enough to carry the movie all by itself.

This movie is an abomination of plot holes, pure stupidity and genius.

Unfortunately the genius is only viewable in the beautiful artwork done for this movie, because indoor shots as well as outdoor shots are breathtaking.

Spoilers ahead.

However, every character in the movie seems to have a death wish, if they are not too busy poking holes in the plot wider than a train tunnel.

This movie is best watched either high on Krenole ( the industrial waste people seem to be enjoying blowing away their brains with in Snowpiecer, pun intended... ) or with a good portion of surreality, because nothing in this movie is anywhere close to being made intelligently.

To people who say this is a movie criticizing our society: The only thing that this movie portrays is an astounding stupidity on everybody's part. Nothing deep or thoughtful happens in this movie. NOTHING.

You can read any review here on this movie scored 3 or lower and get tons of good ideas on how to NOT DO A MOVIE, but for my own amusement I will list my own top ten ( or twenty or more. You could basically do this all day long ).

1) No guard posts are set up, even though there is open rioting going on. Oh, wait. I forgot about the new holiday policy on the train.

2)The stupidity of having to control your population by having riots killing off people regularly is... well, at least you save on condoms, right?

3) After FIVE MINUTES of massacre in the tunnel literally everybody is still alive and can call out for torch lights being carried Olympian style through the entire length of the train, to arrive there five more minutes later, to still find everybody intact and in fighting shape. Oh and that torch obviously had babies on its way to the fray. Cute.

4) A full store cabin of foodstuff, yet not a single cart carrying actual livestock. I am guessing the train is actually piggybacked on a cattle trail. Made immune to cold. Yepp, sounds about right. Makes more sense than the engine being a perpetual motion thing anyway.

5) Luring your enemies into your child's classroom, only for the PREGNANT teacher drawing out an Uzi to assassinate them is PURE GENIUS! I always knew teachers had a dark streak, much like clowns, and finally giving them the chance to act on their frustrations... WELL DONE!

6) Gilliam works from inside the tail section to instigate riots to help the population control. So we are to believe that a guy gave his arm to cannibalize on willingly to safe a baby in order to stick to a lifetime of poverty and dirt in the tail section to regularly send people to their death? Lolwut? Oh, wait, I forgot. Evereybody on this train is a mental patient, so all is well and everybody is acting normally, within their respective limits.

7) I don't think I can do more than five. My eye is starting to twitch nervously just thinking of writing more about this train wreck of a movie.

Overall the entire movie gives a lasting impression of a feverish dream while being on a bad trip.

And in the end, when everybody except two have killed them self off, you see them meeting a polar bear in the Himalayas and you know everything is going to be well: The polar bear will eat those two, too, and finally the entire train of stupid has come to a halt. Thank you, Mister Polar Bear. Well done!