The most expensive movie in Netflix’s history is being destroyed by the critics: Check out the most brutal reviews
Starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, the Electric State is a science fiction action-adventure film produced and directed by Anthony and Joe Russo.
Released by Netflix on March 14, the Electric State focuses on the film’s main character, Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) who is upended when she’s visited by Cosmo, a mysterious robot who appears to be controlled by Christopher (Michelle’s genius younger brother whom she thought was dead).
Determined to find the beloved sibling she thought she had lost, Michelle sets out across the American southwest with Cosmo and soon finds herself reluctantly joining forces with Keats (Chris Pratt), a low-rent smuggler, and his wisecracking robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie).
With a budget of $320 million, it ranks as one of Netflix’s most expensive productions and in the space of just a few days, the films is generally getting roasted by critics.
Electric State: reviews
Media aggregator Metacritic shows that the film scored a ‘generally unfavorable’ review with an average score of 30/100.
The Times UK: “The look is mid-period Transformers. The dramatic tension non-existent. And the performances uniformly weak. This is top-dollar tedium”.
New York Times: “Whereas the book is elliptical in narrative, muted in color palette and melancholy in mood, the movie is obvious, garish and just plain dumb.”
Rolling Stone: "It’s a bad movie, full stop. Which is a pity, because the pedigree looks great on paper."
However, amidst the highly critical reviews, there were small pockets of isolated love for the film with the UK based The Telegraph giving the Electric State a rating of 80/100 adding: "What fun it is to watch a film this expensive and not be able to quite work out where it’s going“.
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