Blade Runner 2049; A Prose by a Wannabe Poet

Rating: 5/10 (6 October 2017)

It isn't simple to be the real thing, now is it? Yet when you get it right, it is hard to argue against it. That is true of replicants in Blade Runner 1982, as well as the movie itself. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about its successor Blade Runner 2049.
The movie struggles to get it right on all fronts. The story-line toils to be consistent, the plot doesn't flow right and the original eerie atmosphere is lost to special effect grandiosity. Dialogues are stale and not even close to memorable exchanges in Blade Runner 1982 that can still send shivers down your spine. The theme music that binds together the emotional and intellectual mood of the film in 1982 has a leave of absence in 2049.
The original Blade Runner was a captivating poem, the 2049 version is just a misconstrued essay.