Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Pugnacious — 07 Oct 2017

Yep, another masterpiece, only... not so much. If movies are primarily about the story, the new Blade Runner sucks. There are too many unnecessary scenes, too many amazingly slow ones, and many which I like to call executions - on the surface something happens there, but indeed they are only about exposition.

Every scene with annoying Jared Leto is just that: cheap exposition. Bad guys are one-dimensional, unlike Rutger Hauer in the first movie. Rich, original environment of the first movie are now desolate ruins.

Which is nice, for a second, but then you see almost all scenes are empty. At some point, it looks like there are not secondary characters in this world. Gosling was a good choice, and there is enough good thing in BR that you still can watch it and have fun, but BR2049 should simply be much better than this.