Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Gamed2Long — 05 Nov 2017

Blade Runner 2049 is a beautiful unicorn of a film. The kind of film that only comes along once every few years. And it'll probably be talked about for years. Its very much art house film but with a modern blockbusters budget and resources.

The film plays with complex concepts that can quickly turn into debates. People have complained that the film is long and drags on. And if your looking for action events and plot twists that will be your experience.

The film is like a 10 layer puzzle. The problem, like the original, is that the simplest layer on the bottom is strange and doesn't have much going on. Since that is usually all there is to simpler action flicks, if you don't look on other levels for more then you get bored.

But on every other layer of the puzzle the pieces add up. The rules of the universe are self consistent and not broken. The narrative makes certain logic jumps without spoon-feeding you the information.

Again, off-putting to people used to being spoon-fed every plot point. My experience for the first viewing of the film was with a language I am not yet fluent in. So a lot of the conversation was lost on me.

I was amazed by the visual storytelling that was going on. My second viewing, in my native language, only added to it, though it helped I could focus on other details the second time around. More than 1 viewing suggested! Overall it is an incredibly impressive film, toying with the fundamental concept of what it means to be human.

And what it means to be human in a world where memory can be implanted, where creations are becoming more perfect than their creators and what it means when you can't tell the difference anymore. In a way the film borrows ideas from other P.

K.Dicks novels and takes them great places. True to the universe of the original film it also cut key elements of the book out. Overall best film I've seen in ages. Also props to the director. The romantic encounter scene is something absolutely unique.