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

This is the closest thing we will ever have to a new movie by Andrei Tarkovsky.

The slow, deliberate pacing is crucial; it is meditative and entrancing, and the scenes between K and his "wife" are thoroughly Lynchian in their drawn-out intense discomfort.

I don't want to spoil too much, but there is a gun battle in a special sort of abandoned room - and it just might be the most bizarre, haunting, and perfect scene in Sci-fi cinema since the 1970s.

The only things holding me back from giving a perfect 10/10 are that the music, while very good, wasn't as "Vangelis-ey" as I would have liked - and that Jared Leto's performance stands out as being very awkward and overwrought in a movie that is otherwise a broiling ocean of wordless emotion and memory.