Why Millie Bobby Brown can’t save ‘The Electric State,’ Netflix’s mega-budget robot retread Sure, it has an A-list cast and Marvel directors, but this graphic-novel adaptation forgets to ...

The new Netflix movie “The Electric State” depicts a world full of robots — but not robots as we know them. Directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo (who previously helmed two Avengers ...

The Electric State, Netflix’s ambitious $320 million sci-fi spectacle directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, explores numerous classic science fiction tropes while establishing its own unique universe.

Never mind that The Electric State owes its very existence to Philip K. Dick, Battlestar Galactica, and The Matrix. The movie is every bit as indebted to others in its particulars.

In Netflix’s “The Electric State,” the sci-fi adventure from Anthony and Joe Russo, Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt help renew a robot rebellion in an alternate version of the ’90s.

This year "The Electric State" arrived as one of Netflix's most expensive gambits, a film burdened not only by a budget that exceeds $300 million but also by a creative lineage that promises much.