The Electric State is the most expensive movie in Netflix’s history

The Electric State is the most expensive movie in Netflix ’s history.

The movie suffers from a constant lack, not of resources but of imagination, of inspiration.

The story cries out for some of Paul Verhoeven's consumerist satire, but instead the Russos have chosen to play it as Spielberg .

The Electric State is most directly indebted to Ready Player One , which takes place in a world built of pop-cultural discards.

The Russos don’t seem to care about a young girl wrestling with the idea that the brother she’s mourned for years might still be alive, so they simply skip past the emotional deadweight and move on to the next eye-catching spectacle.