Really beautiful visuals, pretty good movie, I just have one complaint

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2017)

I'm not even close to the level of Blade Runner junkies out there; I was 15 when I saw the original and appreciated it, and it's always stuck with me like it has with so many other people. So I knew I'd take my 50-year-old self to the theater to see the sequel. Like a lot of people have noted, it's really beautiful to look at (strange how that can be, given that it depicts a world of such horror).
My one complaint today is the same one I felt when I saw the original as a teenager: I feel that the violence and menace that the replicants project seriously undercuts the viewers' sympathy towards them and their plight. Yeah, it must suck to have a 4-year life span (the original replicants), but how sorry can you feel for a bunch of super-strong androids that (for example) crush people's skulls with their bare hands? How sorry can you feel for the Luv character after the various scenes of her violence? The only character who seemed to project real fear and vulnerability in the original was Joanna Cassidy, who played the exotic dancer and was chased down in the street and shot by Deckard; in the new film, perhaps Dave Bautista's brief part.
That's my beef and I'm sticking to it!