A very slow paced disappointment

Rating: 6/10 (14 October 2017)

Thirty years after the events from the first movie, another Blade Runner makes a staggering discovery which makes him investigate what turns out to be a very deep mystery which is somehow linked to the one from the first installment. Along the way, many secrets will be uncovered although it won't be an easy task, especially when there are several parties which want to know the truth.
It's a movie which continues the events from its predecessor but it also does it in almost the same way, which is quite a disappointment to be honest. It manages to maintain its slow pace without any hesitation, making it even more tiresome than the previous movie. The plot is indeed a bit more interesting, but not enough, while the new characters seem to have a bit more depth. You still don't get to care about them, but it is marginally better regarding this aspect.
It is also boring for a good period of time, having a tendency to over-extend each sequence much more that it would have been necessary to transmit the intended idea. Thus, it ended up as a very lengthy movie which could have told basically the same story in about two hours, if it would have left behind all the fillers and the exaggerated description of every scene, which can only induce boredom.
Visually speaking, this movie is absolutely gorgeous. Its special effects are excellent and play a very important role in creating a very enjoyable dark atmosphere of what it looked like a post- apocalyptic city. Unfortunately, they simply aren't enough to raise this one from mediocrity, as they failed also in the first installment.
The actors seem to do a good job but the plot and its sluggish rhythm simply drag it down. It's simply hard to enjoy a movie which seems to be made by a sloth, which bores you to death and then, from time to time, it realizes that it should bring something interesting to wake you up, cycling this way until the end, which, by the way, leaves plenty of room for yet another sequel which I truly hope will not exist.
In my opinion, both movies are a big let-down, considering what worlds they had created and how spectacular they look, only to fill them with below average stories, told in the way they are told which simply do not provide interest, emotion or satisfaction.