Watched it last night. While I was constantly impressed by the art design as well as all the environments, the movie was just not great to me. I suppose if I saw the movie when it came out I'd be more impressed by it. While watching it I was constantly reminded of one of the parts of the Animatrix (the story about the history of the machines) as well as AI and similar science fiction movies. I realize that Blade Runner essentially started all this stuff, but as a movie I wasn't impressed. Sure it was a "good/alright" movie, but it never struck me as being one of the "greatest" movies of all time.
It came on pretty good, but as the movie progressed I got bored. Ford was extremely dull and monotone throughout the entire movie, as if he was just phoning in the preformance; yeah he's monotone in general, but it seemed more blatant to me in this movie. To make matters worse, I was not interested in any of the characters in the movie. The one girl who originally didn't know she was a replicant was interesting, but her entire reaction to the situation seemed pretty weak; obviously as a replicant her emotions were primitive, but I would have expected a bigger responce from her at the hearing of the news. You'd think she'd confront her maker or something.
The story was extremely interesting and good imo, but it dragged on for way too long in certain parts. This was complicated by some rather strange editing. Like for instance, towards the end of the movie Ford is fighting the last replicant after killing its love interet (the female replicant). At one point the replicant breaks Ford's fingers and tells him he's going to count to 3 and then kill him. But once he counts to four there's a scene where the replicant is seen bent over the female replicant's dead body, kissing it slowly. Where did that come from? He had already seen the body previously. Little things like that confused me.
Overall I was pretty disappointed by the movie. From a visual perspective it was brilliant and looked on par if not better than many movies out today, but in terms of the actual movie I was not really grabbed by it. I'll watch it again today though.
7.5/10
