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

Contrived story and Pretentious story telling. Over the top exposition that drones on and on to overly explain and give feeling of importance to an unimportant plot. So the plot goes something like this; Rachel and Deckard had a child. so the movie spends 2 hours trying to convince you its important somehow. CGI Rachel was the lowest point of the movie, with the villain suggesting that it was planned for Rachel & Deckard to meet in some sort of master plan.

There are a handful of good scenes in this movie. Such as the opening scene, or in some of the visuals. But much of it is style over substance. The good pieces are far and few. And in between are just horribly long expository scenes where characters you dont care about talk about nothing at all. Nothing important or interesting happens throughout this entire movie. Just some stuff happens, some nice visuals thrown in, then it's over. I just wanted something to happen that I could care about. ANYTHING. go down in the streets. show what life is like down there. Let things happen on screen. Get me invested in a character or in the world. I just got so tired of boring people talking. Many of the sets are bland and uninspired. Bland white walls and bland white floors. or yellow walls and yellow floors. Don't bother if you enjoy the small details, because they aren't there. Many of the environments look sterile and lack the Blade Runner 1982 details. The Original movie wasnt like this at all. The environments were dirty, messy. unorganized, and lived in. You don't get that feeling at all in 2049. I get it that its supposed to be like 30 years later. But come on. This isnt meant to be **** star wars.

The soundtrack was calm and sentimental at times, and then at other times very obnoxious and loud. I didn't enjoy the tone of this movie. The original soundtrack by Vangelis was beautiful. But this was like a dying cat at times. Also, dubstep. Really? What I would have liked to see in a new Blade Runner film would be a grounded movie about a Blade Runner who hunts replicants. We got that in the opening scene like an appetizer. But then the rest of the movie is just up in the clouds, trying hard to push its meaningless plot as interesting and meaningful when in actuality it isn't. Blade Runner 2049 is style over substance.