Almost perfect Cyberpunk movie.

Rating: 8/10 (4 September 2018)

You read Neuromancer and wanted to see something like this? Well, here it is. All the tropes and themes of cyberpunk in one gritty, well executed package. You get everything from street hackers to augmented mercs, from majority of humans living in dirt poor conditions to wealthy enjoying their own paradise in space. In this world human live costs less then a robot. There's even a brain hacking event and a noble sacrifice of hero. As I said, almost everything that people like cyberpunk genre for and what they wait from it.
Now, the main problem with it stems from the fact that it was advertised as a sci-fi action movie from creators of District 9. So people waited some sort of a braniac movie with really heavy social commentary and great action. Now, when action is there, it's really cool, imo, nothing epic, just sort of grounded and realistic, but nice. Cyberpunk is a fantasy genre, there's no sci-fi in it, it was mostly just projecting the current tech into the future with some funny ideas attached. The main plot is pretty straightforward, simple and naive, very typical of cyberpunk.
Actors did a really good job representing their character archetypes.
The only thing this movie was missing is a gloomy neon aesthetic that is associated with the genre. This way it would be probably classified more properly. Other than that it's a perfect representation of cyberpunk in movie form.