What is Atlas about?

“Can you hear me?”

A question you never want to be asking when you’re in orbit trying to defeat an old enemy. But that’s the situation government analyst Atlas Shepherd (Lopez) finds herself in at the end of the high-octane trailer for Atlas, and she doesn’t sound thrilled about it either.

She’s on the hunt for Harlan, an intergalactic terrorist, who murdered her family during an attack on her agency’s headquarters and is currently hiding on a remote planet. But when missiles strike her spaceship, she has to evacuate in an AI-driven mechanical armoured suit (we have no idea what that is either) to complete her mission.

“The film follows Atlas Shepherd, a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, who joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past,” says the Netflix synopsis. “But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.”

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