It aint "Star Wars". And how pleased I am about that!

Rating: 9/10 (29 March 2018)

Blade Runner is sciencefiction. HOWEVER, sciencefiction fans who search for mindless "Star Wars" entertainment probably wont be pleased with this Blade Runner sequel, because it hasnt got the Star Wars "fun factor". And how pleased I am about that! I really cant stand those Star Wars franchise series and anything that looks like it. Fortunately "Blade Runner 2049" is totally different than the usual hollywood sciencefiction franchise crap.
"Blade Runner 2049" has got an almost hypnotizing slow dynamic. It is as if one is submerged into a mindset unlike any other science fiction I have ever watched, besides similar mesmerizing worlds of fantasy in the other great sci-fi classics like the original Blade Runner and the magnificent "Alien" of the same director Ridley Scott.
Blade Runner 2049 is about an android killer machine who has got to track down other robots which have to be terminated. This story truly excels at the suspense that one cant tell the difference any more between who is machine and who is human.
I was really in awe of the world and the mood the director created with the use of gloriously dark pounding music. The soundtrack really was AS important as the visuals were. Highly recommended to listen to this movie with headphones or good speakers, because the bass tones will create ambient dark spaces that one can "swim" in for hours on end.
I really felt transported into another world by the stunning visuals. I mean, they were just breathtakingly dark and ominous. Excellent Oscar worthy photography by the famous Roger Deakins! Days later I still had these gorgeous visuals floating in my mind.
"Blade Runner 2049" impressed me on a level few other scifi movies have ever done. It's a visual and sonic mindtrip into another world. Villeneuve's direction is what made this possible, because he is capable of creating a continuous suspenseful mood. Even when not much is happening in the story this dark but alluring suspenseful mood is constantly present. Difficult to describe and other people might simply will experience this dark mood as boring, but I really was in awe of this mesmerizing dark mood which the director had created.
I have now watched it for the second time and I could better understand the somewhat difficult storyline. I enjoyed it even more the second time around. Blade Runner 2049 has all the merits and power of becoming a new sci-fi classic. Time will tell..