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20 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the Last 20 Years
Presented in chronological order:
Galaxy Quest
The Matrix
Minority Report
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A year after the release of "A.I. Artificial Intelligence," Steven Spielberg unleashed another wildly ambitious science-fiction project in theaters, the Tom Cruise star vehicle "Minority Report." While "A.I." filtered its themes of morality through a story akin to a fairytale, "Minority Report" found Spielberg in visceral action mode, crafting a neo-noir chase thriller that's as much a character study of a father battling grief as it is a science fiction fable about the battle between free will and fate. The film is set in a future in which police are notified of crimes before they happen (a system known as "PreCrime"). But when Cruise's police chief sees his own name appear in the system, indicating that he'll kill a man he has never met before, he's forced to go on the run. Are his actions an attempt to avoid his destiny? Or are they simply the steps leading him to it? It's a cerebral debate that is as thrilling as any action set piece Spielberg dazzlingly imagines, all steered by Cruise's agonized performance.
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28 Days Later
2046
Primer
Children of Men
The Fountain
The Host
Timecrimes
Cloverfield
Inception
Attack the Block
Looper
About Time
Coherence
Her
Edge of Tomorrow
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Modern movies have long struggled to translate the experience and enjoyment of video game playing to the big screen, but Doug Liman's 2014 actioner did exactly that with ease (oh, and without actually being based on an existing video game). The Tom Cruise- and Emily Blunt-starring war film takes a snappy idea -- call it Live. Die. Repeat., as the film's tagline does -- and blows it out to amusing, clever extremes, all aided by some wicked humor and two lead performances that are all-timers for their very talented stars. The film uses smart shorthand to telegraph exactly what's going down in Bill Cage's (Cruise) increasingly looped life, handily smoothing out time-travel issues while also delivering a banger of a war movie. Sure, the final alien battle is a little out of place (they need your...brain? each other's brains?), but everything that leads up to it is so good, so smart and so clever that the end result is still aces
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Godzilla
Ex Machina
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Core human values are always at the center of great science fiction, and nowhere is that more true than Alex Garland's mesmerizing directorial debut "Ex Machina." A character-centric morality play moonlighting as a sci-fi drama about artificial intelligence, this knockout thriller speaks volumes to the ways in which sexuality and gender can be shaped and manipulated for personal gain. Domhnall Gleeson plays a young tech worker who must run a Turing test on his CEO's startlingly lifelike new robot. Everything, of course, is not as it seems, but Garland keeps his themes running with such ferocity that each (you-know-one-has-to-be-coming) twist adds an organic punch that enhances the story and the themes tenfold. The actors all mesmerize, too, most notably Alicia Vikander as the alluring robot with shapeshifting motives that constantly surprise. Take one look at her and you'll fall under her spell. She's downright sensational
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Sounds like I really want to try ex machina!
overrated trash