Time to settle the score. It was decent.

Rating: 7/10 (25 January 2020)

I had no problem with length. I'm a fan of long movies like Stalker, but Satantango which is another movie that I like was really long, 9 hours.
Big fan of the original Blade Runner and the book is my number one favorite.
Why 7. The characters were one-dimensional. Visuals at this time of age and post-Avatar can no longer be the foreground for a film, to me the visuals were too forced, spoon-fed "look how pretty this film is".
Ryan Gosling has no range, he always has the same facial expression throughout the film, he's good at playing psychopaths though.
The first two acts of the film were intriguing but the last third act fell flat, it was empty, just escalation, just confrontation, the "good guy has to win" "we're over budget time to wrap up" trope.
It lacked wildness, the bravery of the original.
So to me this movie is not a masterpiece and I don't believe it will become a cult classic.
It is a decent film however. However I liked Villeneuve's Sicario better, and Arrival again fell flat in the third act. He has the vision but he's not an actor person and not and not as clever as Verhoeven or Cameron, when it comes to dystopian movies.