Underwhelming

Rating: 2/10 (21 October 2017)

I really was afraid that I would snore in the theater, while the movie played on. This new film copies and rips off scenes from the original with gleeful abandonment and interjects modern cinematography for a very thin and predictable story. It felt as if shading the movie would cure all the boring parts and we would gasp with wonder. The original romance was palpable between Decker and the girl. Here in this film I felt nothing. Lots of heavy lasers, special effects and the dreaded CGI. That grimness of the original was missing. Instead this film felt like everybody had moved to better digs. Hell, even the Chinatown scenes weren't as convincing as the original. And then my biggest gripe. They replaced Vangelis to give us absolutely earth shattering bass that any generic synthesizer in the hands of a child would make. No memorable dialogues like the original either. "If only you could see what my eyes have seen" if I remember correctly among other samples that I used in my trance music production. Straight up unemotional and the ending entirely ludicrous. The human touch was missing and Gosling and the faded Ford refused to impress with their woody dialogues. The original remains King.