An hour too long

Rating: 3/10 (21 January 2018)

I don't know why so many filmmakers today confuse slow with profound and dull with visionary. The first two acts take up almost two hours of screen time. Would anything really change if you compressed it into an hour? Oh, I guess you would lose a lot of meaningful shots of Gosling staring glumly into the distance.
If Deckard didn't want himself or the kid to be found and taught people how to hide their tracks, he sure did a horrible job at it considering how many obvious clues they left behind (good job carving a date into the tree under which the secret remains of Robomom were hidden).
I know the smug fanboy choir will tell me to watch a Transformers movie instead. Hey, if you liked this movie, good for you. I thought it was a painfully boring pretentious mess without any kind of narrative drive or interesting characters to speak of. In other words, much like the original Blade Runner then. It's all glossy surface and pretty visuals.
Denis Villeneuve is one of the most uneven filmmakers working today, in my opinion. I haven't been able to see any of his earlier work like Incendies or Polytechnique. The first Villeneuve movie I saw was Prisoners, and that was absolutely fantastic. I loved it. I was not too fond of his next movie, Enemy. Sicario was great on a second viewing. Arrival was a pretentious dumpster fire.