Starts strong but quickly feels indulgent, overlong, repetitive and derivative.

After the initial visual novelty wears off Blue Eye Samurai begins to look increasingly like cell shaded 3d models, with background character walk cycles resembling non player characters from a PS1 game.

The direction feels flat and inert; operating in the constraints of a 3d environment as opposed to utilizing the creative freedom animation affords. This is in jarring contrast to the action scenes which feel like any mid-tier Marvel…

I wish I could think of a better pun but Meh-liens is all I've got.

A bunch of characters you won't care about basically recreate Alien beat for beat, minus the character building, minus the slow ratcheting tension and with 2024 London slang replacing the space trucker lingo of the original, bruv.

The production design and VFX are probably the standout elements here. It's well lit at least but the ever present shaky cam and tight focus are borderline nauseating.…