Disappointing at best

Rating: 2/10 (20 January 2018)

I admit I was not pleased when I heard about this project but I hoped for the best. Then the preview looked really boring and tedious. Watching the final film, I saw that it could actually be cut down to about 45 minutes. There are scenes that needlessly take forever. The look of the film was exceedingly disappointing. Too much dusty haze in different colors. The art direction made the original one of the most influential film in Fashion, Art, and Interior Design of the eighties. In this movie it is just a boring display of a lot of oversimplified flat surfaces. The grotty and baroque kitschy qualities of the original's vision are no where to be found. The old live action version of Cashern is a much more interesting watch than this. The clothes of this movie were abysmally simple like a bad Donatella Versace Collection. The hooker's outfit was even a pathetic knockoff of the the original Tris. I was so irritated on so many levels. The large set pieces of nudes reminded me of a bad homage to AI by Spielberg. Dramatic pacing was non existent. Casting was rather dubious with pretty boy Jared Leto's usual kinky villain not really working very well. Robin Wright was a complete bore. The critics who loved this must be a clueless bunch of SciFi fanboys. Aside from money, was there any good reason to make this thing?