Sukanya reviews I am Mother, a science fiction and fantasy thriller, exclusively for Different Truths.

Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Grant Sputore

Written By: Michael Lloyd Green

On Disc/Streaming: Jun 7, 2019

Runtime: 114 minutes

Studio: Netflix

It is a sci-fi thriller about a teenage girl (Clara Rugaard), who is the first of a new age of humans to be raised by mother (Rose Byrne), a robot constructed to repopulate the planet after the expiration of civilisation.

It is a sci-fi thriller about a teenage girl (Clara Rugaard), who is the first of a new age of humans to be raised by mother (Rose Byrne), a robot constructed to repopulate the planet after the expiration of civilisation. But the pair’s extraordinary connection is jeopardized when an injured outsider (Hilary Swank) enters with news that calls into suspicion everything daughter has been told about the outer world and her mother’s intents.

The most frustrating thing about the movie is the way it favours the unveiling of plot twists over virtually everything else, affecting portrayal of characters, composition, and the related contentment of a proper world-building. In retrospect, the whole production feels like a misshapen. It spends more length persuading us of the benevolent bond between mother and daughter than the movie truly needed!

Suspenseful, well-acted, and intelligent, I Am Mother is a driving sci-fi tale that mostly achieves its impressive purposes, and yet could’ve been much better than this

Suspenseful, well-acted, and intelligent, I Am Mother, is a driving sci-fi tale that mostly achieves its impressive purposes, and yet could’ve been much better than this because the original story is just wonderful and rare to find in this world of cinema where anything that’s coming up seems to be a remake of the old in some way or the other!

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