Mother / Android

What a huge disappointment. The rather intriguing trailer had caught our attention and let us think of an efficient science-fiction movie with androids which instead of serving the homes as butlers have decided to turn to the eradication of the human race. In this post-apocalyptic context we meet Georgia (Chloë Grace Moretz), a pregnant university student who wanted to have an abortion before the androids started to change the urban landscape in a definitive way. Now that the United States has become a no-go zone, we find Georgie and her boyfriend Sam (Algee Smith), still pregnant, trying to survive in a dehumanized world in which the few remaining humans live in fear of being killed.

Director and screenwriter Mattson Tomlin delivers a first film that is sorely lacking in seasoned directorial vision and spectacular special effects. By putting at the center of his film the pregnancy of his heroine and by opposing a hostile world, the director had however the means to propose a different film and charged with various emotions. However, the too slow rhythm of the film, a real absence of a structure that would have allowed for many twists and turns, make us quickly get bored in front of this film that only has the merit of giving a different and more mature role to one of our favorite actresses, Chloë Grace Moretz.

Of course, the worldwide pandemic of covid-19 has changed the game in terms of filming and has also influenced some directors to look for more intimate films that require fewer people, but to propose a stripped down, slow and boring film is inconceivable, especially since the audience's demand is very present. The lack of ambition of Mother / Android makes that we do not manage to immerse ourselves in this disappointing film that could have been successful if it had a director much more inspired, characters better built and a real painting of a society in perdition.

Mother /Android
Written and directed by Mattson Tomlin
Produced by Matt Reeves, Bill Block, Mattson Tomlin, Rafi Crohn, Adam Kassan, Charles Miller
Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Algee Smith, Raúl Castillo
Cinematography : Patrick Scola
Edited by Andrew Groves
Music by Kevin Henthorn, Michelle Birsky
Production companies : Miramax, 6th & Idaho Motion Picture Company
Distributed by Hulu (US), Netflix (International)
Release date : December 17, 2021 (United States), January 7, 2022 (France)
Running time : 110 minutes

Viewed on December 1, 2021

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