What the visuals! What a beauty! What a masterpiece!!!

Rating: 8/10 (8 December 2017)

The visuals of this movie are just amazing, I have never seen something so beautiful in a picture until now. What we see on the screen for 2 hours and 30 minutes is a mixture of perfect use of colours and lighting. Every setting is characterised by its own colours: settings which present cold colours (like the one at the beginning of the movie) and settings which present warm colours (like the radioactive setting where Agent K meets Deckard). The cinematography used in Blade Runner 2049 takes us back to the most recent Villeneuve's movies (Sicario, Arrival and Prisoners): slow camera movements and master shots which serve to highlight the importance of the character/s and the setting/s and to create the perfect thriller atmosphere. The imposing images that Villeneuve decide to show the audience are so beautiful that it's hard to feel the length of the movie even though it's quiet long, in average. The screenplay isn't complex and so is the story. The missing development of some characters is necessary since most of them are, in fact, replicants. I don't give it a 10 because, unfortunately, the story progresses too slowly and the villain is too little characterised. Best sequel of the history of cinema, even better than "the empire strikes back".