Welcome to "The Big Empty"

Rating: 6/10 (6 October 2017)

First of all let me say that I have not seen the first movie but had high expectations for this movie, considering how the first one is regarded as one of the best sci-fi movie. Now coming to the movie, I must agree that the movie is wonderfully shot and is visually stunning but I can't say I found anything great other than that. Talking about "the world" of Blade Runner 2049, it might've looked good coming from the trailers with it's great use of neon lights and sleek shots. But once you watch the whole movie you will realise that it's very much "dead" and "empty". One might also argue that it isn't much detailed. I remember watching the trailer of "Cyberpunk 2077" which is a game yet to be released but has a similar "world" which was showed in it (even the car looked very similar)that was far more detailed than anything you will see in this movie.
Now coming to the plot and characters. The characters are again "dull" and "empty". The film starts good with you expecting the character of Dave Bautista to be great but after that it's a downhill. Each and every character delivers their dialogue with almost no reaction. Even though I know this a story of the "replicants" and that they might not show much emotions, but in the end you wish expecting some emotions coming out from them, especially Ryan Gosling's character. He is present throughout the movie and develops relationship with few characters but you won't be able to find it interesting or connecting.When he meets Harrison Ford's character, get ready to hear some cheesy dialogues being exchanged between them. Overall, I found Gosling's character to be the most boring. Now coming to the story, the movie explains it's premise at the very beginning which is very easy to follow and has a "twist" which is revealed in the middle portion of the movie which I'm pretty sure you might have seen coming. At the end of the story line, you wouldn't probably care how it ended and overall feeling "empty".
I would also like to comment on the "action" scenes which this movie has. Gosling's character is shown almost invincible which takes away the "tension" one would expect from these scenes. He has fights with a few characters but easily delivers the final blow.
All in all, I would like to compare it with another sci-fi movie called "Oblivion" starring Tom Cruise. Both looked visually great but were very long and boring. They both seemed very "empty" with the main character ending up being "dull" and "boring". While Arrival was a great science fiction movie directed by Denis Villeneuve, I was very disappointed with Blade Runner 2049.