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Cool story. Sadly the characters are not as interesting as in the She-Ra reboot, which also has way better animation. Teela and Andra are cool, but the rest looks like on 80s muscle drugs. Would've liked a more modern approach.

For every movie of the scale of an "Annihilation" there is a "Tau", basically one of those straigh-to-video films you probably would never ever watch, no matter what. Put a "Netflix Original Movie"-stamp on it and you're at least interested. The film feels like a bad episode of "Black Mirror" with actors (Ed Skrein from the horrible "Transporter Refueled") that cannot sell their performances and GARY OLDMAN?! as the voice of the A.I. Tau, that never feels like an artificial intelligence of the future and more like an unemotional reading of some strung together words that are a prime example for a bad script. There are so many - SO MANY - plot holes you'll wish for the next Michael Bay movie to win an Oscar. The visuals are only cool in the first five minutes when "Tau" shows us main actress Maika Monroe as a colorful wig wearing thief in a futuristic neon world that actually doesn't matter, will never be seen again but makes us hope for an atmospheric sci-fi movie. Instead of this we get one of those movies we wanna cancel our Netflix subscription for.

When you do the same thing over and over again you'll probably end up making a boring movie. And here is Tom Tykwers "The Princess and the Warrior" with Franka Potente and Benno Fürmann. It wouldn't be as bad without all the stereotypical styles of Tykwer. It's as if he works in a stasis without any new ideas. He doesn't deliver anything - ANYTHING - new here. There are the connections between strangers that tell us that everything is connected somehow (think "Cloud Atlas" and you see that Tykwer never has something new to tell), the moral dilemmas and all the personal challenges that are about nothing really. But if it's the first Tykwer film you watch, then you get a tense story about people who wanna break out of their normal life patterns told with slow dialogues and some very fine music. But for this you can basically watch every Tywker movie.