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This is the 2017 long-awaited sequel to the (now) iconic 1984 film Blade Runner, which starred Harrison Ford a Deckard, a Blade Runner who hunted down and retried Artificially Intelligent Androids called Replicants. This movie is set 30 years after the original movie. We find out that the Tyrell Corporation has been taken over and is now the Wallace Corporation, run by Niander Wallace (played by Jared Leto). The corporation still makes replicants and has basically turned them into slaves, and the Earth has become a dystopian nightmare, in large part due to an electromagnetic pulse that wiped everything out in 2022. Ryan Gossling plays K, the most advanced replicant (a Nexus-9 Replicant) who is a Blade Runner that hunts down and retires rogue replicants. In the process of retiring a replicant at the beginning of the movie, he discovers evidence that replicants can reproduce biologically, and this leads him, through a series of events, to finding Deckard (again played by Ford). I will not spoil the movie for those who have not seen it, but if you have seen the original movies, similar themes play out in this movie that did in the first one.
For those who get the 4-k blu-ray, it is a two-disc set with a UHD disc just containing the movie and a regular blu-ray with the movie and the extras. The A/V quality of the UHD disc is top-notch, pretty much what I would call reference quality. There are, of course, a lot of CGI effects in the movie, and everything looks seamless so, if not for flying cars and the like, it would be hard to tell what is real and what is not. The extras include two longer featurettes, one 17 minutes and one about 22 minutes, that focus on casting and the look of the new movie. Then there are a series of prologues which are prequel shorts to the movie that provides some backstory. The longest is just over 15 minutes and the other two are around 6 minutes. Then there are a series of short featurettes that total 11 minutes and can be played all at once, which cover different aspects of the Blade Runner world. Then there is a trailer for the game that was released around the same time as the movie. All in all, the extras total about an hour and twenty minutes, give or take.
Overall, the movie is very good. The writers did a good job incorporating parts of the story from the original film into a new, updated movie, and made it work. The cast is very strong and includes Robin Wright, Ana De Armas (in her first major role in the US), and Dave Bautista. The movie even finds a way to incorporate Sean Young's character (using a similar kind of CGI and real actor blend that was used in Rouge One) from the first movie without her appearing in person (although she is still credited as appearing as Rachael). Like the first movie, it is hard to classify what genre this is. It is a movie that has a lot of action, but it is not really an action movie per-se. It is a mix of action, drama, philosophy, and thought experiment all rolled into one. The acting is top-notch with Gossling doing a great job taking over the leading role, and Ford steps back into the role of Deckard well. It is a worthy follow-up to the first movie and is definitely worth watching.
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Blade Runner 2049
Three decades after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
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I saw Blade Runner 2049 today, opening day, and it was exactly what I had hoped for. I highly recommend watching the 3 short films that Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve had commissioned. "Black Out 2022", an anime short, helps add depth and background to Blade Runner 2049. "2036: Nexus Dawn" and "2048: Nowhere To Run" add character background to 2 important characters. All 3 short films are really great and different from one another. Performances across the board in Blade Runner 2049 are high, from big parts to little. Gosling and Ford are exactly what you'd expect, and what you want. Their performances are fantastic. Ana De Armas and Sylvia Hoeks are on opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of their characters in the film, and are both extremely captivating to watch.
One can't really say much about this film without spoiling things. I like that like the original, this is a noir detective story. I like that it shares similar themes as the original, and explores some new concepts that deepen the world that Philip K. Dick invented on paper. This film is long, clocking in at 2 hours and 44 minutes, but it doesn't feel long. The pace of the film is consistent and editing is tight. I think Roger Deakins did a fantastic job as cinematographer and expanded on some things that the cinematographer from Blade Runner (Jordan Cronenweth) did with lighting and moving light sources. A trio of composers work together to make their own mark but also keep in tone and style with the original. Which ultimately sums up the entire film that Denis Villeneuve crafted from Ridley Scott's script. Denis took what was great about the original film, and created his own story. The Blade Runner sequel could have been about anything, and Villeneuve crafted something that's both old and new, and yet rather modern. The film isn't action packed but when there is action, it's very entertaining and violent, like the original. I like that not everything is tied up and resolved.
Sequels tend to not be great, they're often a studio grasping at creating a bankable franchise. A sequel 30 years later is generally a really desperate attempt at recapturing some market and a bad idea. Making a sequel to something like Blade Runner, which is now considered a science fiction cinema masterpiece, is a big gamble. And I think it paid off for Villeneuve. He made something that pays homage to the original without force feeding us memberberries and in your face references and offers something new and unique and something of his own. Blade Runner 2049 looks and sounds and feels like the original but also feels new and different, which is exactly what I look for in sequels. Key events at the denouement of the film make you revisit previous scenes and view them from a new perspective. I've found myself thinking of certain scenes constantly since seeing it, much like the first time I saw Blade Runner. Whether you prefer the original theatrical release of Blade Runner, or the workprint or director's or final cut, whether you thought Deckard was a replicant or not, I think you'll be pleased with this film. I saw this in IMAX and 2D, as it was shot. Though I have read that the 3D presentation is good, it was shot in standard 2D. The release date itself is even significant with in the film. The sound design is amazing, that room was just quaking for 2 and a half hours. Blade Runner 2049 exceeded my expectations and I think it's an amazing complementary sequel to the original and I've no real complaints about the film in any regard. Performances are strong, it's shot and edited well, the story is fresh and it makes you think. Blade Runner 2049 comes FULLY APPROVED.
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