Magnificent

Rating: 8/10 (28 June 2012)

Wow. This movie was far better than I expected. Ridley Scott is the master of the genre. He creates tension for the first hour when not much is really happening except for a bunch of set up. He is a master. I wanted to be Charlize Theron's slave. Then I wanted to rip the robots head off, then I felt bad for the robot...what a confusing world.
As far as the story I feel like it pushed a meditative vibe on life and creation as long as it possibly could before people started getting whacked. Which is an accomplishment. Usually in the genre we're pounded with blood early on, but Sir Ridley managed to set the tone he wanted, tell the story he wanted to and then sort of "give in" to the inevitable blood bath.
I deducted 2 points because I think it was entirely unnecessary to show the final shot, I won't spoil it.