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The Last Assassins review – shades of Blade Runner in dystopian thriller shrouded in silty-green murk
Athena Park flees futuristic marauders in a post-apocalyptic tale that looks handsome but very familiar Close to a decade after the year in which Blade Runner was set, that movie continues to be the gold standard for dystopian futures. That’s obvious from the silty-green murk and Asian signage of the broken-down metropolis where this ponderous sci-fi thriller kicks off; the last remnants of civilisation after an obscure catastrophe called the Event. With the Earth locked in a new dark age, outside the cities a noxious fog keeps everything shrouded in a permanent winter. Lucky then that protago
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