Great Visuals - Disappointing storyline

Rating: 4/10 (13 June 2012)

I'm only giving this film a 4 out of 10 because, and only because, of the great sets and visuals. It saddens my heart to see such terrific technology wasted on a mediocre, at best, storyline. I would think that Ridley Scott would know better than to let a couple of Hollywood hack writers anywhere near one of his films. BladeRunner is my all time favorite science fiction film. Between Scott's direction and Harrison Ford's portrayal of Deckard, no truer depiction of a possible future has ever been done by anyone else; except, of course, in Avatar. This clunker, on the other hand, is a tribute to what can go wrong when a director's common sense falls prey to the easiest way to get it done. To me, this was just a 1950's bad "B" movie dressed up in modern techniques. Anyone who knows anything about SF knows that its true fans are completely unforgiving when it comes to short changing your story. It's the stories that make us love the genre.