Visually competent take on the original material while missing the point entirely.

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 2018)

You can sum up the failure to understand the original by breaking down the main villains motivation, which is completely incoherent and incompatible with the original narrative. The claim is that the antagonist wishes to populate the solar system but can't produce enough fake humans and so is seeking the hidden secret of reproduction which was solved by the original creator before he died in the first film. So you have fake humans who are so cheap to make that they are deliberately given the lifespan of an iphone and the idea is replacing them with a system of reproduction and learning as slow as our own.
There is some interesting interaction between the main character and his digital companion but they never really deal with whether the replicants are any less real than the ai. So in the end its barely a blade runner film as it throws away the original dilemma, it just kinds of assumes the answer.