Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Matt S — 17 Jan 2018

2040 hours of Ryan walking. I'm serious, most of the movie is Ryan walking, somewhere or other, very slowly! I get the visuals are stunning, but it's like the director was trying to give us time to appreciate the visuals.

Also parts of the premise are under-cooked. Mainly, Jared Leto's character, Neander Wallace, wants to know how to make replicates that can reproduce because raising a grown person to 20 years of age is supposedly easier than manufacturing a replicate...wtf. And somehow this genius thinks it's actually a good idea to give a slave race that's stronger than them, the ability to reproduce. Consequently, this would also bring the ability to mutate and evolution, but whatever. I also had issues with some of the performances and found that I didn't care quite as much about the characters as I should.

Not to say it's all bad the detective work was interesting, it doesn't spoon feed you, and it's hypnotic and visually rich. Because it's brilliant at times it's just all the more frustrating where it fails.