Average movie...need not have been made.

Rating: 5/10 (11 November 2017)

***This will contain mild spoilers**
Here's the good, the bad and the ugly on this movie:
The good: I didn't mind the slow pacing of the movie. Hollywood needs to embrace more of this to create atmosphere and get the moviegoer immersed in the setting. This movie does so but sometimes goes out the other side. The 'computer girlfriend' was cute and some of the ideas involving her were interesting, setting the 'next level' beyond asking how human can replicants be: how human can software be? More human than human?
There's a few nice nods to the original from the advertisements to the musical score to the recreation of the landmark look of the Tyrell Corp. building and some minor set pieces.
The bad: Ryan Gosling just isn't a very good actor. He does his best, I guess, with what he got given. He's the pretty face du-jour and puts (female) bums in seats. That's about all there is to say about him. Not one of Harrison Ford's best performances, but he's alright. The main villain likes to drone on to no point and purpose. The female villain is even more pointless in her motivation. As antagonists go they come off as stereotypes more than anything. The CGI of the exteriors and interiors is OK.
The ugly: The other female is no Daryl Hannah - even though they obviously tried to cast a lookalike. The rest of the supporting cast is weak/one-dimensional and some of the expositionary dialogues are downright cringeworthy - explaining things that *must* be known to the character being talked at to the point that they might as well be holding up a neon-sign with "audience, listen up". As for clichés: "Give me your badge and your gun and you have 48 hours". Really? Cameos: Edward James Olmos' cameo is unnecessary for...anything. A de-aged Sean Young hits the uncanny valley (just as the de-aged Kurt Russel did in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2)
While I applaud the boldness to forego the incessant fast cuts of other movies the director has no capacity for distinguishing between a shot necessary to build an atmosphere vs. one that is just "O-golly-gee". If they had taken out the latter the movie could have been cut by 30 minutes and would have been better off for it.
3D - oh my. 3D is the bane of movies these days. Entirely unnecessary for this movie (I know of only one movie where 3D adds a stylistically logical element and that is "Tron: Legacy", where the computer world is in 3D and the real world is in 2D)
The movie also lacks any sort of emotion. The director seems to think that putting a tear in someone's eye denotes deep emotion and will grip the audience. We see basically *everyone* in this movie shedding tears - and none of it touched me one bit (quite a feat!). There's no nuances, here. There's no small facial movements (like the great scene between Priss and Roy in the original where they talk with just their eyes). The replicants are more terminators than artificial humans when it comes to emotions. So are the humans, come to think of it.
Conclusion: Worth watching? If you liked the original: Maybe. Just so you can say you've seen it and know why the original is a masterpiece (because it sure as hell is compared to this) Otherwise this is a movie you can easily skip.