Just...wow.

Remember when there was a petition or whatnot to keep George Lucas and Steven Speilberg from touching their old movies? Well Ridley, it's your turn. You've directed some good movies, but jumping back on to a series that went to crap after the first one is a bad idea and I'm sure the latest Blade Runner will be no different. Honestly this felt like a "do over" where Ridley got an opportunity to do what he couldn't do the first time either because of budget or creative restrictions. It's like Lucas getting to add on to Star Wars which led to 2 1/2 awful new movies. The beginning visuals and the visuals of the planet landing where the only interesting part of the movie with any sense of creative vitality. The rest was terrible acting (minus Theron and Fassbender who tried their best with this script), hammy dialogue, and loopholes. I don't mean loopholes in the sense that things were unexplained in an interesting way. I mean loopholes in the Michael Bay sense where its complete lazy writing where you gloss over things, add in stereotypical characters that you grow no attachment to, and move to the next cool cgi scene or expensive set. It was there was a "building" of "suspense" for 2 hours to a a disappointing, unrewarding conclusion. Instead of making one good movie, you're going to try to space mediocrity over sequels? What, you want to space it out to 15 movies? Aliens vs. Garfield: The Tale of Two Kitties? I've heard there were a number of scenes cut (which couldn't be many considering it was what? 2 1/2 hours?), so maybe its an issue of awful editing as well. Either way with all the "hype" build up about this its no wonder they didn't let the actors or anyone talk about it. They didn't want people to know its just an uninspired Alien Prequel.