We're more than halfway through December, which means 2025 is just around the corner with a whole new slate of new movies to look forward to. Before that, though, there are still plenty of decent sci-fi movies to watch on Netflix this month to tide you over until the new year.
This month, we have a Michael Bay action thriller about transforming robots that sparked an entire film franchise, a rough and tumble cyberpunk thriller starring Logan Marshall-Green, and a cult classic pulp adventure set in an alternate 1930s universe filled with of giant creatures. flying robots!
Let's take a look at what this month has to offer!
Editor's Choice: Transformers
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Director: miguel bay
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel
Even though it came out just a year earlier iron man and The dark knightMichael Bay Transformers feels completely disconnected from almost all the CGI blockbusters that came after it. While superhero movies tended to be more ironic and sarcastic, Transformers is a surprisingly sincere film, with overwhelming heart and almost no cynicism, despite being a film based on a toy brand.
I'm not here to tell you Transformers It's good, it's absolutely good, but you should already know that. What I'm here to do is tell you to look again Transformers to take a brief look at what the blockbuster movies of the 2010s might have been like. I'm not really sure if that's better or worse than what we have, but it's fascinating to rewatch this movie now that it totally resembles to everything that came after, excluding its own sequels, of course. —Austen Goslin
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Director: Leigh Whannell
Cast: Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson
Improvement It could be the best cyberpunk movie of the last decade. The story follows a man who is left paralyzed after a horrific car accident, which was orchestrated to kill his wife. To avenge his death, he accepts a computer chip that takes control of his body, giving him incredible strength, speed, and agility.
It's a fairly recognizable concept, but Improvement manages to make it feel fresh and original, thanks in large part to its extremely funny script and an excellent performance by Logan Marshall-Green, who plays some of the film's funniest moments as a hapless passenger in the violence and chaos that his body is perpetrating. . —AG
Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow
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Director: Kerry Conran
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Giovanni Ribisi
Kerry Conran's 2004 pulp adventure is a labor of love. Conceived with his brother, production designer Kevin Conran, Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow It stars Jude Law as Joseph Sullivan, a mercenary fighter pilot using the callsign “Sky Captain”, who teams up with his journalist ex-girlfriend Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) to stop a mad scientist from terrorizing the world with his army of giants. flying robots.
The film is an unabashed homage to the adventure series of the 1930s, with dieselpunk designs and towering skyscrapers flanked by luminous lighthouses and floating zeppelins. Sky Captain and the world of tomorrowThe use of “virtual backlot” technology would become a major influence, inspiring the look and production of films such as 300 and sin city. Conran hasn't directed a movie since, but if this is the only movie he makes, it would be a nice legacy to leave behind. —Toussaint Egan