(FOUR STARS)
Gareth Edwards It is, within the field of the great blockbuster, good news. Although his version of godzilla It is quite uneven, it has moments of visual beauty and character development that gave hope. RogueOnehis movie in the universe Star Warsis one of the best of that series. Endurance shows a great ability to make the (huge) action scenes have emotional weight beyond the “break everything” spectacle.
The story is not very original: an artificial intelligence has started a war against humans and has created an ultimate weapon. A soldier has the mission to find her, and he does: she turns out to be an artificial being that looks and behaves like an eight-year-old girl. She is difficult to destroy, let’s say impossible.
So a notable problem appears: that of empathy. Ergo, we have Blade Runner, Terminator, Star Wars and a long etcetera as the base matrix of the story. But in any case the virtue of the film does not come from there but from something else, from the characters. They seem really human and we care about them, even though they sometimes seem to be there so that we “understand something deep about our own world.”
The relationship between that soldier and that artificial girl is what sustains something that, deep down, is more Heidi than science fiction, although it belongs by right to that genre. Beyond its intention of being a great show, something like an experiment.
