Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Brucecook99 — 05 Oct 2017

This is visually exciting and a feast for the ears. Unfortunately every shot lingers on the screen for 3 or 4 times the length necessary to tell the story. And the story is hampered b y a lack of logic. When the villain Wallace tells Ford he can take him off-world to torture him and get an answer he wants...he could do the same thing in the room he is in. And the big secret is obvious from early in the script.

This needs a rewrite from a skilled screenwriter and then a serious editor to trim out the fat...by which I mean you could keep every shot cut to the length to make the next story point and the movie would be less than 100 minutes.

The audience I saw it with was restless. There was no applause at the end, they just filed out in dispirited fashion.