What's happening and why do I care?

Rating: 3/10 (7 October 2017)

This has been my main question throughout the movie. What's happening and why do I even care?
The first hour is just Gosling brooding and acting all emo while he moves from one scene to the next. I have no idea why those replicas needed to be hunted down or why they kept testing him over and over.
The movie lacks tension or a sense of direction and it is less a story and more a series of scenes happening to maybe establish something later.
When the big bad come along I snorted, he was just so pretentious. OK we established that you're evil for the sake of being evil, where's the fast forward button.
The movie is boring with long stretches of silence or nothing happening then a burst of "emotions" happening out of nowhere and for no reason that half the theater actually started giggling at them. I'm not sure those scenes where intentionally funny though.
By the time the big events happens it's the last 40 minutes of the movie that attempts to glue all the scenes together thinking it's deep and clever. It wasn't, it really wasn't. and by then I stopped caring.
Visually I thought it was nice at first but it was so pretentious and trying so hard to be deep that it ended up looking like a generic late 90's movie.