Visually Stunning Piece of Nothing

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2018)

How hard is it, when you spend $150 million dollars to actually come up with a story line.
Even though this nonsense is over two hours longs - what little I could comprehend of this movie wouldn't hold the attention span of a 20 minute midday soap opera.
The visuals are great and otherworldly but for some reason that seems to give every single person in shot a permission slip to talk really slowly, to not impart any information, to talk in a whisper and to leave 20 second gaps between everything that's said while staring at each other expressionless.
The story seems to me, android cop whose job it is to track down and destroy the old androids - finds cause to think that one of the androids managed to have a baby. Queue the world powers being interested in that, and him suspecting that it might be him. Surprise surprise its Harrison Fords and the hot robots from the last movie, and its not him but some weirdly simply whispering woman who he interacts with for about 2 minutes halfway into the movie.
Absolutely nothing is explained - as the entire movie is just utterly laden down with its own sense of self importance, and unspoken meaning.
As far as I can see, for both this movie and the original - The only redeeming aspect of any note - is the fantastic visualisation of a futuristic city which shows Asian and American culture clash in some rainy dirty downtown of the future. Also the sound is very good. Take those two things out of either blade runner and you would have absolutely nothing of any consequence.