Style overwhelms substance with ‘The Creator’

Set in the 2060s, when humans and robots are able to reproduce, it begins as Joshua (John David Washington, Denzel’s son), an undercover special forces agent, sees his very pregnant ‘simulant’ wife Maya (Gemma Chan) killed just as they’re being extracted from an explosive attack.

Years later, still-grieving Joshua is summarily recruited for a new mission. In the interim, AI seems to have gone rogue, igniting a nuclear attack on Los Angeles. For self-preservation,…