If You Like The First One...

Rating: 7/10 (6 October 2017)

Although I had no interest in seeing Blade Runner 2049, I had free tickets so I decided to go for it. That should sort of set you up for my feelings going in. I braced myself for a loooong movie. Well, this movie is well done. Beautiful shots. Good acting. Story and character motivations make sense (for the most part). But it suffers from the "who cares" curse. This movie is definitely a sequel and fully feels like we're in the same universe but "who cares". Why do we have to have sequels to movies that we love? Trying to capture the same thing we felt the first time? Just leave it alone and go make something new. So, if you liked the first film, you will like this one. And vice versa. Denis Villeneuve knows how to make a movie. He's done it very often. Keep it up. Just don't do sequels.