Summary
Atlas, Jennifer Lopez’s new Netflix action movie with a 17% Rotten Tomatoes score, tops the streamer’s global chart. From Brad Peyton (known for directing the Dwayne Johnson star vehiclesJourney 2: The Mysterious Island,San Andreas, andRampage) with a script by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite, Netflix’s new sci-fi action film follows a data analyst who partners with an AI to confront a renegade robot bent on eradicating humanity. Other than Lopez in the lead role, theAtlascastalso includes Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, and Mark Strong.
Now, a few days after its release, Lopez’s new action movie has toppedNetflix’s global chart. For the week of May 20-26,Atlasranked #1 on Netflix’s Global Top 10 chart with 56.3 million hours viewed and 28.2 million total views. It finished well ahead of the second placeThelma the Unicornwhich, in its second week in the Top 10, received 10.7 million views. Rounding out the rest of the Top 10 areIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,Mother of the Bride,Disturbia,Sing 2,Ice Age: Collision Course,A Simple Favor,Madame Web, andSecurity.
Atlas Ending & AI Twist Explained
Netflix’s Atlas sees Jennifer Lopez battle evil robots with the help of her AI-powered mech suit, and the twist ending may set up a future sequel.
Why Atlas Reviews Are So Bad
Atlasis the latest Lopez movie to become popular on Netflix despite bad reviews. Her first collaboration with the streaming service wasThe Mother, which was released in May 2023. WhileThe Motherreviewsraised Lopez’s refreshing return to her action roots, the movie was deemed disappointing by critics for its heavy reliance on typical genre tropes, resulting in a 43% Rotten Tomatoes score. However,The Motherwas a massive hit on Netflix, scoring the streaming service’s biggest opening weekend of the year at the time with 83.7 million hours viewed and nearly 43 million total views.
Now,Atlasis the latest Netflix action movie to continue this trend for Lopez. WhileAtlasreviewsonce again recognize that Lopez makes an admirable effort to carry the movie’s immense scale, it is ultimately a sci-fi spectacle that collapses under the burden of its poorly written and superficial script.The bad reviews resulted in a 17% Rotten Tomatoes score from the critics, one of the worst scores of Lopez’s career, alongsideThe Boy Next Door(11%)andGigli (6%). It doesn’t seem like audiences have enjoyedAtlasmuch either, indicated by its 51% audience score, which is also rotten.
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Cast
Atlas is a 2024 Netflix original movie starring Jennifer Lopez as Atlas Shepherd. Atlas, a data analyst who doesn’t trust AI, who sets out to recover a rogue robot. But when things don’t go according to plan, she is forced to trust AI to save humanity.
