‘The Creator’: Too heavy on action and light on emotion, characters

The boldest thing about The Creator, a mash-up of mostly familiar sci-fi and war-movie tropes, is the film-makers’ choice of a villain: the US.

Set some 40 years in the future, director and co-writer Gareth Edwards’s movie imagines an American campaign of mass destruction against New Asia, a sort of pan-Asian restaurant of a country.

The US has banned artificial intelligence after blaming