Aspects of this movie are good, but some are bad

Rating: 7/10 (24 August 2012)

This movie is overrated for sure, but it's not a horrible movie because of that.
The movie had an atmosphere to it that seemed to convey the same affect to me as a surreal painting from the 1920s. I came out of watching this movie once again with a strange unease of unfifilment and perhaps in some way I lack the ability to really feel this movie as other people seem to. This film was a work of art in a visual way, but it lacked emotion in my opinion. There was really no emotional amplitude at all in this film. I gazed upon the screen watching this as if I was on some kind of pain-killing medication. The story was very boring- detective guy in the future hunts down and kills dangerous synthetic bad-guys. Yeah, there is a bit more to it than that, but not much more. There was no philosophical dilemma or revelation, and the action scenes were a bit of a let down for me.
One of the strange things I found to be true about this movie was that it is a bit unpredictable, but in a bad way. At any time, anything could have suddenly happened and I wouldn't have flinched or asked myself 'Why did that just happen?'. The characters were so emotionally bland that I had absolutely no vested interest in what happened to them.
What I did like about this movie was the strangeness of it, and how it was such a hard movie to grasp. I learned that it's best to not try too hard to feel this movie like most other movies, and it's best to watch this movie when you are in a particulliar mood. I enjoyed this movie for it's unique visual affects (not effects, but affects). I think I would consider this movie more of an 'art movie' rather than a 'science-fiction movie', even though it has those sci-fi elements. It doesn't fit well in any one class of movies very well, which I do like.