Ah maaaan

Rating: 3/10 (4 June 2012)

First off I should admit I probably had unrealistic expectations of this movie. But you know what, Ridley Scott's direction deserved high expectations. As it happens, they were not met.
If you loved the film, more power to you, and I don't wish to offend anyone...but I thought it was truly awful.
Some critics have described it as 'muddled' but that implies a level of complexity, like the movie is brimming with so many ideas it can hardly wrap them together in a neat narrative. In reality, the basic premise was pretty straightforward. The explanation of it, however, was utterly inconsistent.
The characters were not even cursorily explored, aside perhaps from Noomi Rapace's. Incidentally, none of the actors did themselves any injustice, they were completely let down by an insipid script. And with that in mind, i thought Rapace in particular deserved credit. You simply can't care about characters that have this little time invested in them.
Some of the dialogue is truly pish and feels like it was written by a boardroom committee. The ending is hokey beyond belief.
There's a wider problem here i think. A movie with a budget this size simply has to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. The result is that it has to be boiled down to the level a 15yr old understands. Very very few directors have managed to do this without losing the essential essence of the story. And i think Scott fell foul of the same problem.
I know it's been suggested Scott will return to Blade Runner, on the basis of this I hope he doesn't