The Creator 2023 Movie – Storyline :
Described as a post-apocalyptic thriller involving a future impacted by a war between humans and AI.
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war-and mankind itself.
Tagline: Humanity evolves.
Review of The Creator (2023 Movie):
User Review: “The Creator” is a science fiction film directed and co-written by Gareth Edwards (“Monsters”, “Godzilla”, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”). Starring John David Washington in the lead role, it delves into some interesting philosophy regarding how we view the use of AI technology.
In 2070, humanity is at war with AI-built machines after the latter detonated a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles decades earlier, killing millions of innocent people. Still in mourning over his deceased wife from the resulting conflict, former special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) is recruited by the US government to hunt down and destroy an advanced AI architect known as the “Creator”, which possesses the power to not only end the war but mankind along with it. As he ventures deep into enemy territory in New South East Asia, Joshua soon learns that the Creator is being protected by the population of a small village who refuse to disclose its location to outsiders. After some forceful measures are taken by his team, Joshua makes his way into the facility that houses the Creator and discovers that this elusive powerful weapon is actually a robot child girl (Madeleine Yuna Voyles).
Given the astonishing rate technology has been advancing over the past few decades, it seems inevitable that AI will one day prove a lot more problematic for humanity than it already is. Right now, many people are already at risk of losing their jobs to new computer programs capable of completing tasks in seconds that would normally take a person several hours or even days to accomplish effectively. There’s also the potential danger that AI itself could become self-aware and pre-emptively attack us before we’ve even realised what’s happened, as we previously saw in James Cameron’s “Terminator” films. What differentiates “The Creator” from this is that it explores a more philosophical side to AI warfare and how the severity of its impact may not necessarily be the same for everyone involved.
