First of all, looking at the futuristic cityscapes in this atrocity, I think Ridley Scott has a legitimate plagiarism case. But, on the other hand, Blade Runner had a seamy, grimy underbelly that lent realism to the otherwordly pastiche. This thing is shiny and shallow.
I remember seeing Scarlet Johannsson in Ghost World, great small release film from 2001, and thinking she's a nice actress who should be interesting to watch. Fast forward to now, she has had tremendous high profile, big budget success, but that's not always such a great thing. Watching her sleepwalk through the endless Marvel drivel prepared me for her self consciously robotic take on her role in this film. And yes, I am aware of criticizing her portrayal of an android as robotic seems silly, but being enigmatic gets extremely tedious with no other even mildly interesting other characters to play off. She's dangerously close to sharing stereotype status with Mila Jovovich and Charlize Theron-futuristic badass, invincible babes who routinely dispatch trained male assassins twice their size with minimal exertion. It's BORING.
The film itself is a CGI mess, and even after the film was over, I had no clue what the motivation or purpose of any of it was. I think you could probably make 10 interesting films on the budget of this pointless piece of dreck.
I remember seeing Scarlet Johannsson in Ghost World, great small release film from 2001, and thinking she's a nice actress who should be interesting to watch. Fast forward to now, she has had tremendous high profile, big budget success, but that's not always such a great thing. Watching her sleepwalk through the endless Marvel drivel prepared me for her self consciously robotic take on her role in this film. And yes, I am aware of criticizing her portrayal of an android as robotic seems silly, but being enigmatic gets extremely tedious with no other even mildly interesting other characters to play off. She's dangerously close to sharing stereotype status with Mila Jovovich and Charlize Theron-futuristic badass, invincible babes who routinely dispatch trained male assassins twice their size with minimal exertion. It's BORING.
The film itself is a CGI mess, and even after the film was over, I had no clue what the motivation or purpose of any of it was. I think you could probably make 10 interesting films on the budget of this pointless piece of dreck.
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