From Descartes to Kafka

Rating: 8/10 (26 September 2018)

Iwas very excited about BR2049, especially when I heard that Villeneuve is the director.
He created impressive scenes, full of bizarre and wonderful details like the "basic test", the dog and the holograms from the sixties/seventies in Deckards home, the threesome between replicants plus hologram, etc.
But something is missing: A good story, not only intellectual and logical but also moving.
The searches and fights of Joe K. in BR2049 leads to nothing and nowhere,
If Villenueve is brave enough to present us an artificial hero and let us walk mainly in his shoes for over 2 hours, then let him win, give the audience something to be happy about.
This doesnt necessarily need a flat happy ending. In Ridley Scotts BR the replicant Roy shows all his hero abilities in the last scenes: Saving Deckards life , showing empathy, overcomimg his melancholy and accepting his own death.Indeed more human than the humans.
Joe K's melancholy just ends in static depression. He is on a wrong path from the beginning. Maybe the story of Blade Runner was already told to the end in Ridley Scott's movie, Villeneuve needed all his artistic power to squeeze this respectable work out of the given storyline