Natural City

Blade Runner welded to a buddy cop movie. Replicants, er cyborgs, have a 3-year lifespan. Even the pleasure models. Someone is activating the combat cyborgs, which the police seem woefully incompetent at containing. One of the cops is in love with an expiring pleasure model, and introduces some conflict when he starts looking for a black market hack to fix her.

Visually, this movie is quite appealing. Many ideas and details from the Ridley Scott film are used, and this film could easily be set in the same world (perhaps a few years later). As the encounters with the combat cyborgs get more frequent, the movie becomes more of a Korean action film, leading up to a typical big explosion at the end. Nowhere near as psychologically or philosophically interesting as Blade Runner, but an enjoyable sci-fi action film.

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Natural City (IMDB)

Wince : [*____]
Flinch : [***__]
Retch : [*____]
Gape : [**___]

Beerequisite : [**___]
Pornability : [*____]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [****_]

Reality Check: The police tactics when hunting the combat cyborgs are pretty awful.