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The Electric State
2025 125 min United States of America PG-13 16+
★5.1
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
📖 Based on the novel
«The Electric State»
bySimon Stålenhag
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Description
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
Budget:
$320M
Starring
Chris Pratt
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Millie Bobby Brown
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Woody Harrelson
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Awards
5 nominations total
Key opinion
The Electric State is widely considered a technically polished but hollow spectacle that fails to live up to its ambitious budget and source material. While critics and audiences praise the film's visual design and effects, the general consensus points to a disjointed narrative, weak character development, and a struggle to balance its dark themes with a tone appropriate for all ages.
| Production | The production design and visual effects are consistently praised as stunning, offering a highly polished and tactile retro-futurist aesthetic. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay is widely criticized for relying on derivative tropes, cliché-ridden dialogue, and a thin narrative that fails to flesh out its sci-fi concepts. | |
| Acting | The acting is broadly viewed as unconvincing, with leads Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt criticized for being miscast or delivering uninspired, repetitive performances. | |
| Theme | The film attempts an awkward tonal blend, vacillating between dark, melancholic themes and lighthearted, child-friendly adventure, ultimately alienating both adult and younger audiences. | |
| Pacing | Opinions on the pacing are split; some find the movie a tedious and bloated experience that feels needlessly long, while a minority of viewers find the journey an enjoyable adventure. | |
| Adaptation | The adaptation is criticized for abandoning the grit, ambiguity, and internal logic of Stålenhag's original graphic novel in favor of a generic, simplified blockbuster structure. |