'The Creator' Is So Sloppy It Makes the Case for Tired Franchise Films

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/20th Century StudiosIn an industry consumed with franchises, sequels, spin-offs and other name-brand spectaculars, it’s admirable that Gareth Edwards has convinced a major studio—20th Century Studios—to produce an original stand-alone science-fiction epic. Good intentions, alas, pave the road to you-know-where, and that’s certainly the case with regards to The Creator. A visually striking but shoddily written and crushingly derivative amalgam

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