Arrival and Enemy were incredible films...this one...

...isn't

Maybe it's the fact that Vill oughta work with human characters. He doesn't have the touch films like Ghost in the Shell or heck, the original Bladerunner, have to make a cast composed of engineered soulless humanoids work. At about half way through I realized I cared about no one in this. When I saw dead face Reynolds survive a crash and tank his way through a hoard of people, I was officially out. Too much, too dour, too soulless and the complete absence of anything to care about racked up on me.

Vill's smooth, polished visuals felt right at home in Arrival. It was a smaller and intimate story about a woman who lived a life of seclusion before aliens landed. It doesn't work in Bladerunner's grungy, dystopian world. Feels too clean.

My two cents have spoken.