all this film has going for it is the production d...

Rating: 6/10 (23 August 2001)

all this film has going for it is the production design. This movie is dreary, ugly, and very pessimistic. The buildings of the future are very huge and advanced, but the people in the film are all depressed and cynical. Harrison Ford gives the worst performance of his career. It is hard to see why this film is praised so much by people. The storytelling is totally muddled and terribly hard to follow. You might think I should watch this film again to appreciate it, but I won't. That's the last thing I would do. Watching the film for me was painful. And what's with that scene were the bad guy kills some other guy by squishing his eyes out and crushing his skull? Couldn't he have killed in another way?
This film has no redeeming features whatsoever apart from the aforementioned set designs, which are quite inventive. The characters are all far from interesting. All actors give flat, superficial performances. The story is extremely depressing. I can't recommend this film at all. One thing I did forget to mention is the beautiful music score by Vangelis. But that's not nearly enough for me to watch this film again. It is downright awful!