BEAUTIFUL AND EMPTY REPLICANT

Some movies are just not to be touched, revamped and continued, since they represent cult features that changed cinematography, redefined entire genres and influenced the entire pop culture.

One of those revolutionary stories and unbeaten representations of the future is the Phillip K. Dick’s and Ridley Scott’s masterpiece SF-noir about the robots and artificial intelligence as the ultimate frontier of mankind, ''Blade Runner''.

Unlike the many similar contemporary cash driven desires to continue the story and finally give some of the much needed answers to the 80s classics, the production team for „Blade Runner: 2049” lead by the creator of the original, Ridley Scott, did their homework and did it well.

They chose one of the best directors in Hollywood right now, Dennis Villeneuve and casted one of the more stellar crews in recent history of SF making (Gosling, Wright, Leto and of course, Harrison Ford).

The visual result was just stunning, since gifted director meticulously solved every single detail in each scene. Transferring the legendary atmosphere of the first part of the (unfortunately) saga was just done with flying colors and that deserves every appraisal.

However, this is where the good things top and give way to the cancer that’s eating 21st century Hollywood.

Lame scripts.

Just to be clear, the original „Blade Runner” was probably the weakest script of all the Top 10 movies of all times it rightfully belongs to, but was also the revolutionary insight into the future, offering some of the most intriguing and so exploited concepts that followed it.

„Blade Runner: 2049” doesn’t have any of those things, since it offers neither new concepts, neither viable characters, nor acting or even some decent answers. It just wanders off, not showing any signs of life and driving the stellar crew into the average, while making the script look blunt and unfinished.

„Blade Runner: 2049” is a beautiful replicant of the original movie, with some great camera, color, production and light, but also with a mediocre script unworthy of the name it continues.

BLADE RUNNER 2049 – 5/10

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UNTRACKABLE

Overlapping timelines is one the concepts brought into the mainstream American SF with the „Terminator” saga 30 years ago and despite its heavy utilization, it failed to produce a decent heir to the trone established by James Cameron.

„Mr. Nobody” tries to elaborate that basic concept by giving numerous paths that branch out from the single life decision, a young boy forced to choose between splitting parents. However, the number and elaboration of those alternative realities, as well as the similarity between them will soon overwhelm the viewer, causing him to be totally indifferent regarding every single of them.

On the positive side, there is some really nicely made sequences and production design solutions.

„Mr. Nobody” laid out a solid foundation, but crumbled upon the weight of its ambition.

MR. NOBODY – 3/10

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WORST MOVIE OF THE YEAR

Comic mashups will kill modern American movie industry. Ideas ran dry a long time ago and the new ones are just being so random and non-creative that it hurts.

Newest addition to the over saturated market is the story about the group of crazy outcasts orbiting Batman's universe, „Suicide squad”.

It's really difficult to say what is worse in this forced out franchise: script, characters or actors themselves. There is no real storyline, just shuffling random events and creatures. There's no real characters, just crazy grinning and lowest level of humor imaginable. There's no real acting, just a couple of „Golden Raspberries” around the corner (Robbie and Leto). There's nothing, but a two hours of your life lost.

„Suicide squad” is the front runner for the title ''Worst movie of the year”.

SUICIDE SQUAD – 1/10

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