This movie is basically a unoriginal unofficial prequel

Rating: 5/10 (4 May 2009)

This is a nicely made movie but with a very unoriginal plot.
It is so much a prequel to Bladerunner that I kept expecting to see references to the Tyrell corp, or maybe I just missed them.
I would have asked the director about this at the screening at SFIFF52 but the director did a no-show at the end of the movie.
Lets recap the Bladerunner derived plot: * it's set on the moon (bladerunners replicants are limited to working off-world) * the main character finds out he is a clone/replicant, and not in fact the person he has been cloned from (in Bladerunner, a female replicant discovers that she is in fact a clone of Tyrells niece) * replicant has fake memories 'imprinted' * replicant finds out he will wither and die after his 'contract' (three years) expires * replicant escapes to earth