This movie starts better than it finishes.
I love how earth has increased its Space Defence since the arrival of alien life in the first movie. The government tells people that aliens will never again come to earth without being detected. Meanwhile a humongous alien ship is sitting in Earth orbit using some kind of cloaking shell. It is also fun to see how the ship's AI effortlessly subverts phones, cars and any kind of digital technology.
The AI now wants to kill Yulia because she acquired water control powers in the first movie. They want to do this with minimum collateral damage and loss of human life, and use digital media to set the population and government agencies after her.
Unfortunately the second half of the film seems to lose its way. The attempt to kill Yulia fails and the AI now appears to want to destroy half of Moscow. This does not seem to be a minimal use of force (couldn't they just send a battle suit or a drone ??). Also, the use of water as the basis of all their technology strains my suspension of disbelief. It does not really make sense anymore.
I wonder if any themes of this movie were inspired by Iain Banks' Culture novels. Similarities include huge space ships with AI minds; a predominately non-aggressive, super high-tech civilisation; subverting digital technologies with 'effectors'; 'Field' technology used by the ship; the 'capsule' used to leave the mother-ship (called a 'module' by Banks).
I love how earth has increased its Space Defence since the arrival of alien life in the first movie. The government tells people that aliens will never again come to earth without being detected. Meanwhile a humongous alien ship is sitting in Earth orbit using some kind of cloaking shell. It is also fun to see how the ship's AI effortlessly subverts phones, cars and any kind of digital technology.
The AI now wants to kill Yulia because she acquired water control powers in the first movie. They want to do this with minimum collateral damage and loss of human life, and use digital media to set the population and government agencies after her.
Unfortunately the second half of the film seems to lose its way. The attempt to kill Yulia fails and the AI now appears to want to destroy half of Moscow. This does not seem to be a minimal use of force (couldn't they just send a battle suit or a drone ??). Also, the use of water as the basis of all their technology strains my suspension of disbelief. It does not really make sense anymore.
I wonder if any themes of this movie were inspired by Iain Banks' Culture novels. Similarities include huge space ships with AI minds; a predominately non-aggressive, super high-tech civilisation; subverting digital technologies with 'effectors'; 'Field' technology used by the ship; the 'capsule' used to leave the mother-ship (called a 'module' by Banks).