Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Notonmywatch — 20 Jan 2018

BR2049 is nothing more than sci-fi porn. And like most higher-end porn, there's but a mere soupçon of a story, which only aids in serving the inevitable money shot. The inevitable money shot hit audiences square in the eyes, but there's clearly a latency of pain or else more viewers would feel as I and many others do—that this reboot is a total failure from beginning to end.

It steals its core idea from Battlestar Galactica and is basically a mishmash of other sci-fi tropes and traps into which the movie keeps sinking. Horrible. Sad. Shameful. The original BR was brilliant and masterful and subtle.

This one is the exact opposite. Jared Leto and Robin Wright are completely miscast and laughable caricatures of themselves. The director should never direct another picture again until he's made to watch good, classic films that were made before MTV ruined everything for us.