Great film, but not a sci-fi epic

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2017)

Going into this film, I was expecting a sci-fi epic, that is, a big sci-fi story was lots of action. Turns out the movie wasn't that. But, what it was instead was great. The acting was excellent. Each character was interesting. The visuals were breathtaking: Monolithic zoomed out scenes, cities, and environments, shown so, so well. Moreover, these scenes were meaningful (e.g. used well to tell the story). The soundtrack was phenomenal, and synced so well with the visuals. I thought it was interesting how all the sexually themed content was the usual "men serving women". Not sure if that was on purpose as part of the story, or it was the usual lack of diversity. There was not much action in the movie. It was fairly slow, and the meat of the movie was more subtle. However, the subtle story telling was done with much careful detail and to success. Still, there were things touched upon in the movie that I really want to know more about, and I wish the movie spent much more time on these (and becoming more of a sci-fi epic), rather than going into so much detail with the, in my opinion, smaller story it focused on the whole time. Also, its possible that the movie gave too much plot away to the viewer, rather letting the viewer try to solve the puzzles themselves. Overall, I think its unlikely that the story is something that I will remember in detail. What I will remember is the overall product that is the movie, which was great.