Ridley Scott ruined a decent film.

Rating: 5/10 (19 August 2018)

I got a bluray with deleted scenes and commentary that brought to light one thing.
This was a film, with a point and effective character arcs, core emotional beats that were gutted because of (mostly) "time" and "mystery"
The final film is a fast paced mess of confused motivations and confused payoffs.
And because the movie needs to constantly keep going nothing is given space to breath. I dont know how these characters feel, everything feels artificial; The conflicts, the desisions, the very deep topic... Turned into a flatline.
Keeping a fast pace is important in a scifi action film today, i get it, but when u remove emotional beats to replace them with action i might as well look at a kid tell me a story with action figures.
I have no reason to care when the movie finds it unnecesary. Mystery is nice, its captivating stuff what happens here, and maybe Ridley Scott wanted to make the audience feel that mystery over multiple films.
But without characters that we clearly emotionally understand and empathise with, how can i be invested in this?
I am in absolute shock and frustration over this desision to remove story elements from a story.
Ridley scott is an old dumbass or they kept it in the editing room too long to the point it fried their brain.
Watching the same movie over and over again until all he wanted was for it to be shorter.
Siigh..
Great shots though this film looks beautiful.