‘The Electric State’ Review: An Expensive Artifact of Our Soulless Technocracy

Movie Review: Russo brothers' sci-fi ‘The Electric State’ is big, ambitious and dull

If an algorithm designed a classic, big-screen spectacle for the small-screen age , “The Electric State” probably wouldn’t be too far off the mark.

‘The Electric State’ Review: An Expensive Artifact of Our Soulless Technocracy

The Electric State, the 2017 graphic novel by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, is a haunting journey through a burned-out retrofuture. The book collects dozens of landscapes following a young woman and an android traveling across an American Southwest littered with abandoned military and commercial robots, and populated only by emaciated human drones who have lost themselves to a drug-like virtual reality that the reader never sees. Alongside the…

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In just a few days, Netflix will release a grand sci-fi spectacle called Electric State, from the Russo brothers, creators of Avengers: Endgame. It will star Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, along with reminders of the past and failed technological progress - robots.

This adaptation of The Electric State is a mawkish, sanitised crime

The Russo Brothers trade in the nuance and melancholy of Simon Stalenhag’s graphic novel for formulaic dialogue and excruciating mawkishness.

'The Electric State' review: get the Russo brothers back to the MCU

There are plenty of charming robots in bubblegum adventure flick 'The Electric State' but humans won't feel anything substantial