M3GAN 2.0

Brian Eggert — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:44:16 +0000

M3GAN 2.0 taps into today’s rampant debates about how artificial intelligence has infiltrated our lives. Unlike this summer’s other major sequel with a malevolent AI at the center—Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, a bloated, self-serious affair with some remarkable stunts—this campy lark has a sense of humor about itself. B-movies and exploitation cinema like this can explore timely issues as effectively as more prestigious fare. They can weaponize their entertainment value to deliver commentary while avoiding didacticism. With its tongue lodged firmly in its cheek, a silly chunk of entertainment such as M3GAN 2.0 can confront real-world anxieties about AI’s role in the erosion of privacy, the death of critical thinking, the elimination of jobs through automation, and the devaluation of human creativity. Such ideas linger just below the surface of this killer robot yarn from Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster. New Zealand writer-director Gerard Johnstone (Housebound, 2014) returns after delivering an unexpected hit with 2023’s M3GAN, which earned $181 million in box-office receipts on a $12 million budget. Johnstone takes a cue from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and offers a sequel that flips the script on the original. Like James Cameron’s all-timer sequel, M3GAN 2.0’s one-thing-after-another […]

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