Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
Chloe Grace Moretz tries to break free of the YA market by making a science fiction film that feels remarkably YA. Moretz plays a young woman who must navigate an AI uprising in order to get to safety so she can give birth.
It is a shame this year has been so mixed for Moretz she started off with the underappreciated Shadow In The Cloud, and then went on to make Tom And Jerry, a sequel to the animated Addams family film and then this, further and further from grace. This film is by no means terrible, there are some interesting concepts here, however, it never does much with them. Instead it seems content on making this film a depressing melodrama with a YA dystopian setting and a front and centre romance.
Even when the film gets gritty the violence is either not shown or it is surprisingly bloodless, which I guess makes sense if you are fighting robots. However, it just makes this film feel like yet another poor YA film.
Moretz is trying her best however, she doesn’t really bring enough resonance to the part and as such the big emotional twist at the end doesn’t work as much as the film needs it to.
Overall, yet more weak science fiction.
Pros.
Some interesting ideas
It is relatively well paced
Cons.
Moretz can’t land the emotional delivery
Surprisingly bloodless
It feels like an edgy YA film
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Another Millennial Reviewer 
I liked Chloe Moretz in ‘Kick-Ass’ but her movies have seemed to go downhill since then. Disappointing.
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