The Electric State [Movie Review]

The Electric State [Movie Review] | The movie drops just now while I was having my sahur. 

As I wait for morning prayer and to keep myself awake until it was time for me to make a move for my car appointment at the service centre, I watched the movie - featuring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.

The duo promises interesting movie, right?

SYNOPSIS

The Electric State (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Giancarlo Esposito & Stanley Tucci
• Director: Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
• Producer: Russell Ackerman, Chris Castaldi, Mike Larocca, Patrick Newall, Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
• Production Company: AGBO, Double Dream & Skybound Entertainment

• Distributed by: Netflix

• Release date: March 14, 2025

• Running time: 128 minutes

• Rating: PG13 (For sci-fi violence/action, language and some thematic material)
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 6.0/ 10
• Tomatometer: 17%
• Metascore: 30% 
• Filmed under the working title Stormwind.
• Michelle Yeoh was set to star but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. The role was reworked for her former co-star, Ke Huy Quan.
• The Russo brothers secured the rights to Simon Stålenhag's graphic novel in 2017, a year before its release, with Andy Muschietti set to direct. After a bidding war, Universal won distribution in 2020, but Muschietti left to focus on The Flash (2023). Netflix took over in 2022, and filming finally began. 
• This is the 16th film in history to cost $300 million or more, joining blockbusters like Avengers: Endgame, Avatar: The Way of Water and Fast X. Unlike the others, it's the first not tied to an existing franchise.

In 1990, Chris takes a test and aced it. He completed and aced the test, faster than Albert Einstein. His sister, Michelle was there with him and applauded his great achievement. 

Then, humans and theme-park robots goes into war. It all started with Disneyland when its first sentient animatronics, designed to promote the park in 1955, evolved into mass-produced laborers, working tirelessly in every corner of society. But after decades of exploitation, the machines fought back, led by Mr. Peanut. Mr. Peanut is the animatronic version of the Planters mascot.

What followed was a brutal four-year conflict. The fighting ended in 1994, when President Bill Clinton signed a controversial peace treaty with the robots’ leader, Mr. Peanut. Under the deal, surviving robots were exiled to the Exclusion Zone, a walled-off wasteland in the Southwest. Now, their dwindling numbers are crammed into an abandoned shopping mall, out of sight and out of mind.  

Meanwhile, humanity is trapped in a different kind of prison. The war’s true victor, tech billionaire Ethan Skate, introduced the neurocaster, a device that lets people link their minds to robotic avatars. Now, most of the population lives in a dazed stupor, piloting their drone bodies while their real selves waste away on a chair or couch in their homes. Society has collapsed into a landscape of screen-addicted husks, except for Michelle who refuses to plug in.  

Michelle has had no interest in escape, until now. After losing her family in a car crash years ago, she assumed her younger brother, Chris, died in the crash. But one night, while her neurocaster-addicted guardian, Ted, sits drooling in his chair and fantasizing about Cindy Crawford, Michelle spots something lurking in her backyard. A small, yellow robot, grinning eerily. It looks just like Kid Cosmo, Chris’s favorite cartoon character. And then it speaks. The voice is broken, filtered through pre-recorded sound bites, but the message is clear: Kid Cosmo is Chris and his real body is stashed somewhere and needs Michelle to retrieve it.  

Determined to find her brother’s real body, Michelle sets off with Cosmo into the wasteland. Along the way, she teams up with John Keats, a smuggler with his own contraband robot companion, Herman. Their journey takes them deep into the Exclusion Zone, where they find a ragtag group of discarded robots, led by none other than the politically subversive Mr. Peanut himself.  

But they aren’t just up against time. The powerful, drone-controlled security forces of Ethan Skate are closing in. With unlimited resources and a sinister connection to Chris’s disappearance, Skate won’t let them win easily. Not far behind is bot-bounty-hunter, Colonel Marshall, who takes his job seriously. 

Will the rescue mission succeed? Who will win - human or robots?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• Simple story line and enjoyable.
• Very oldies vibe.
• I love the CGI - looks clean and believable.

What I Don't Like:

• The fight scene at the end kinda rushed.

Will I Watch It Again: Yes, I will.   

Overall: 4.0/ 5.0

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