All the cliche trailer lines and the impression this gives of the plot is not doing the movie any favors. Also the editing of the trailer is very awkward, feels a bit of a rush job.
That said, I think the footage itself looks pretty great. I am not too worried about the basic story as I enjoyed it in book form, we will see if Robert Sheehan and Hera Hilmar have good chemistry as the leads because that will go a long way towards making this an involving watch. Hugo looks like he's owning his part, Jihae's line readings (or maybe it's more just that her lines were not good) were kind of eh but she LOOKS great as Anna Fang, look forward to seeing Stephen Lang as the cyborg Shrike.
Definitely a lot of danger that this could flop and be a Valerian-style mess, but I am encouraged by the stories over on Collider where the filmmakers sound like they were focused on making the Tom/Hester relationship at the core of the movie work, keeping the movie at 2 hours max in length, and trying to bring some tactility to a movie that has to rely heavily on CG to create its world by having a lot of sets and extras.
