Interesting visuals, but story falls flat

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2018)

All the story really mounts to is that Deckard and Rachel had a child. That's nice, but it doesn't really make a difference in the world of the movie. Rachel was a unique creation of Tyrell's, and it's made clear that the big corporate baddie (there's no more prevalent stereotype in Hollywood than the evil/amoral businessman, but I digress) can't duplicate it, nor presumably, can anyone else. Furthermore, the fact that the child has to live in a bubble means she's essentially a genetic dead end. Also, Rachel dies after giving birth via c section, implying that it wasn't exactly good for her health to bear a child. In short, there's no basis for thinking that this is going to trigger a wave of replicant self propagation or cause any other fundamental change in the Blade Runner "universe". There's talk of a "revolution" among the replicants, but they hardly needed this particular development to motivate them for that, given how they're treated.
The entire movie feels like what I feared--an unnecessary exercise that doesn't really add anything to the story.