Saved by the visuals, gritty and sensual; but not enough to recommend it.

Rating: 6/10 (10 April 2018)

It is hard to recommend this film. I had high hopes for this. I could sum this film up by parsing about the last 4/5th of the way through this film: it felt like the old fart Harrison Ford 'handing off' the blade runner role to a younger guy who could do more with it. In that sense it felt kinda like in Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning.
That's not the only aspect of the story that was old and cliched. The film basically revolves around the 'humanitarian mission to save innocent life'. It is all about finding this girl who was a 'miracle child' born of both human and replicant which should not be possible. The corporate CEO who sells the replicants, played by Jared Leto, wants the child for his own purposes, while different factions argue back and forth. This is very Big Lebowski-esque in that it is a complicated back-and-forth changing storyline (which I hate), and I felt that, like Terminator: Salvation, at a certain point the plot just fell apart.
The good of this film is that it has a very 'techno-punk' feel and gets you into a deep, dark mood. It has an almost trance-like essence in every scene. BTW, there is quite a bit of nudity and adult content, some gun violence as well as physical violence.
I did however become a fan of Ryan Gosling after this. I could see his works again and in my mind he has a Bruce Willis / Arnold Schwarzenegger, leading-man quality to his performances.