The plot and the sub plots are good but not great, which sums up most of the movie. Many of the characters are very one-dimensional, such as the Guard Captain, whose only characteristic is that he takes any chance he gets to abuse prisoners. The acting in the film is nothing special except for Bill Bolender who does a fantastic job in the few seconds he gets to play Elmo Blatch.
What bothered me a lot and what makes the film noticeably worse than it could've been is Morgan Freeman's narration that spoon feeds the viewer with information that should've been communicated with the shots shown during the narration. Without the narration, the viewers would have been forced to focus on the actions, facial expressions and body language of the different characters to understand what they are going through. There is a reason to why Harrison Ford's narration in the original version of Blade Runner is excluded in the two later versions. There are many theories surrounding the ending of the movie, but in my opinion these theories only exist because the ending is so boring that people create better endings in their minds to make the disappointing movie they've just seen better. Strong 7/10.
What bothered me a lot and what makes the film noticeably worse than it could've been is Morgan Freeman's narration that spoon feeds the viewer with information that should've been communicated with the shots shown during the narration. Without the narration, the viewers would have been forced to focus on the actions, facial expressions and body language of the different characters to understand what they are going through. There is a reason to why Harrison Ford's narration in the original version of Blade Runner is excluded in the two later versions. There are many theories surrounding the ending of the movie, but in my opinion these theories only exist because the ending is so boring that people create better endings in their minds to make the disappointing movie they've just seen better. Strong 7/10.