![]() He consistently fails to establish geography and edits action so frenetically that it’s often impossible to work out what’s happening. The original’s director, Paul Verhoeven, may not have been Mr Sensitive, but the new one - the misleadingly named Len Wiseman - is an irony-free, soulless technician. Most of it looks rather too much like Ridley Scott’s classic, Blade Runner. Sadly, there’s no attempt to generate humour or horror as London’s original sights lie beneath layers of multi-cultural, global-industrial tat. The only places to live are a grossly overpopulated Britain and Australia, which connect with each other via an amazingly fast, super-sized lift that passes through the centre of the earth. ![]() The action here is strictly earthbound, with virtually all of Earth uninhabitable after a global biological war. Uninteresting: Jessica Biel, left, stars as a fellow agent and Quaid's love interest ![]()
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