Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Awesom-0 — 29 Jan 2020

This is a beautiful movie and it captures the essence of what the first movie was about. It does so in a different way, and does so with heart.

This review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017) was written by Awesom-0 on 29 Jan 2020.

Blade Runner 2049 has generally received very positive reviews.

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Beautiful pictures but very long and slow even if trying to keep intense, quite disapointed and prefered the 1rst Blade runner far more…

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