Just Awful

Rating: 1/10 (19 June 2018)

After watching this for over an hour, and finding it almost totally incomprehensible, I began to think that it was perhaps a disquisition on the nature of reality. Or a homage to tedium. With several failed attempts to last through to the ending, I had recourse to Wikipedia, and discovered what was supposed to be its plot. It was still incomprehensible. It will be some time, if ever, before I watch this film right through. Faint echoes of Ridley's earlier masterpiece. Since it was photographed by Roger Deakins, the photography had to be skilled. It was just that the scenery and sets were 90% dismal: a kind of grey rust colour, inside and out. The acting was nothing to celebrate. I can't imagine anything less demanding. It was far, far too long, for no reward. I couldn't tell who was real and who was a replicant. Quite a lot of pointless violence, semi-nudity and termination. Was that the message ? How do replicants age ? How do they replicate ? Were they all replicants ? Why did they apparently replicate like humans ? What exactly was this terminally dreary story about ? Don't bother to tell me, I could not care less.