Sumptuous film-making at the wrong price point

Rating: 9/10 (8 October 2017)

This movie gets it right with a few exceptions. I'm not here to talk about the few exceptions -- okay, the villain is pretty weak. You could teach a dozen different classes on the themes and imagery of this movie. But what were they thinking? A $150 million budget on a cerebral science fiction movie that continues the plot thread of a 35 yo cult classic? I would be hard-pressed to green-light this picture at half that budget. As an audience member, I made out, and I had to watch a half dozen trailers of stupid sh*t blowing up and people yelling things like "there is no cure!" Sometimes I feel like we don't deserve movies like these. I'm glad it got made, don't get me wrong. But I think they just shot themselves in the foot.