soundtrack crushed a weak movie to begin with

Rating: 2/10 (8 October 2017)

Just like the remake of Ben Hur you ask why would anyone take on such a responsibility since the original Blade Runner is the best science fiction movie ever made. Bad idea from the start, like trying to improve on Michelangelo's sculpture of David (yea remake that one), or like Custer who thought he was going to kick-ass on some Native Americans after following a trail for a couple of days that was a mile wide ("Please Mr. Custer, I don't want to go").
But what made an impossibility even worse was the soundtrack. You couldn't even hear the dialogue over the synthesizer sound.
Hans Zimmer has lost the plot. The pinnacle of his career was the music he composed for "The Thin Redline" which was wonderfully appropriate and in big part made the movie. Dunkirk was on the edge, and Blade Runner 2049 fell off the cliff.
Zimmer has lost the plot, and the director that accepts that he knows best better think again.
Sorry but this sound track is too much, too annoying, too loud, too overpowering, it is so over the top that you don't enjoy the movie experience, you can't even concentrate on the movie. You feel drained, and least of all entertained.
Like the real Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) said to the Cilician Pirate that betrayed him: "go away" In the future I will check the composer of the soundtrack before I go to a big movie, and if its Hans Zimmer, I'm not going.
This is Zimmer's Michael Cimino "Heaven's Gate" moment.