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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), is tasked with hunting down and destroying old model replicants and when he's on a mission, he comes across the remains of a once-pregnant replicant. K is ordered to find the child and destroy all evidence related to it, leading him to discover that the child bears a connection to missing blade runner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. He goes in search of Deckard who he thinks might have the answers to some of his questions.
Ryan Gosling gives a fantastic performance as K and you could feel how much he was struggling with his identity. The CGI was beautiful and near flawless and the action was well shot and interesting to watch. This doesn't take away the fact that the Blade Runner sequel is excruciatingly long and boring. There were a few scenes where no one talked for at least three minutes and I hated how slow paced it was. It was really slow paced. It lasted two hours, forty three minutes but if felt like five hours. Initially, I felt like they were building up tension with the pace but it didn't get better and I kept hoping each scene was the last scene but they just kept going.
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There were so many unnecessary scenes that were included only to make the movie longer, the story could have easily been wrapped up in less than 90 minutes, but they intentionally made it much longer and they make it seem like the dialogues are supposed to have very deep meaning when in reality, they don't. I love Hans Zimmers as a Film Score Producer so much that I could see a movie just because I wanted to hear his music, but I didn't get much here. I wished we got to hear more of Zimmers music instead of the silent dialogue that eventually got too boring to watch. Harrison Ford is hardly in the film and somehow I feel like they only included him just for the sake of marketing. Although he still gives a stellar performance in the few scenes he had. I was trying so hard to understand Leto as the villain, Wallace & as the film went on, I forgot why K was going on this journey. Dave Bautista's character was wasted and I wish they explored it on a deeper level. I'm still trying to understand what the critics loved about this film, it had beautiful visuals but lacked substance and depth and I was left wondering if there was really any point making this sequel.
RATING 5/10
DIRECTOR Denis Villenueve
BASED ON Characters from Do Androids Dream of Electronics by Phillip K. Dick
SCREENPLAY Hampton Fancher & Michael Green
STARRING Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana De Arms, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, David Bautista, Jared Leto
MUSIC BY Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch
RELEASE DATE October 3, 2017
We can agree on 2 things. Visuals ����Score���� as for the pacing and length of this movie,reminds me of a certian ape movie that was released this year. The pacing was what kept audiences to their seat,wanting to know what the next captive scene was gonna be(The director Villenueve last movie Arrival pacing too similar). Ryan Gosling was good in portrayl of K. Ford should really take a break on acting,but was good to see Deckard back. The only problems I had with this movie was the ending,unsatisfying and too much sentiments and Bautista character. Asides I give it a solid 8/10. This is a movie that never holds your hand as it spirals the viewer through its gorgeous funhouse of the human soul.
ReplyDeleteI totally understand. I just wish I understood what exactly they were going for cause I was really excited to see it. Sadly, I was disappointed. I hope they don't make another Blade Runner film.
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