Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Jeb077 — 30 Dec 2017

A super smart, dark, mysterious, and methodical sci-fi flick that we rarely get these days. It's an anti toxin for all the popcorn, blow 'em up action movies masquerading around as sci-fi. The absolute best thing of this movie is the atmosphere, backed by a near 200 million dollar budget this futuristic world comes to life and leaves you wanting to see more of it even after the near 3 hour runtime. Flying cars, super realistic ruined landscapes, holographic advertisement in the streets, and amazing sound effects bring it all too life.

Acting there wasn't a bad character in the film. Most stoic in personality, too match the oppressed world. Gosling is solid, although not quite oscar worthy I'd say. At one point he yells at the top of his lungs when he finds out a critical piece of information, it was one of the best moments for him and the film could use a little more of that from him. Silvia Hoeks is downright chilling as the central villain, a little too "female terminator" at the end but one of the most convincing female villains I've seen. Overall the women in this show brought the movie up from good to excellent. All were spot on in their roles and memorable characters. Ford is featured less in the film than the advertisements might indicate. He did better in this than in the Force Awakens, partly from having a more important, convincing role. Quibbles as I said before, Gosling could run the gamut of emotions a little more often. The final fight scene a little overdone, and a few too many things put in for sequel purposes (which we may never get). There are a ton of details packed in this movie. You'll need at least 2 viewings to catch everything. Too bad it didn't perform as good as expected, we may never see another true sci-fi epic on this scale.