Bloated Gorgeous Sci Fi

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2017)

This film should be made available to fans to reconfigure into a masterpiece.
All the elements for greatness are there. Just held down by excessive and often unnecessary scenes, and occasionally clunky acting choices and dialogue.
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The first 20 minutes are mind blowing and exciting, and then the film goes off the rails, occasionally landing in awesomeness, then once again meandering through annoying information that loses the viewer.
I immediately wanted to own the movie so I could live in that gorgeous depiction of a unique world. By the end I thought, no, I would have to fast forward through way too much crap to get to the essential moments.
So many great things, such a shame it wasn't edited by an objective passionate professional with an eye for getting to the point.
I have a feeling it was a case of the old corporate 'too many self-important chefs in the kitchen' diluting the stew into a watery soup.
**why was Harrison Ford dressed in Old Navy when every other character had amazing futuristic designer wardrobes?
***could future screenwriters please retire the cliche of a character turning to another character after a violent event and asking "Are you ok?" Obviously that character is not ok...yet they always respond "Yes". And do we need every fight to last and last and last and last. Boring.