Not a sharp Blade

Rating: 3/10 (6 October 2017)

There has always been a debate among my friends about the original Blade Runner being way too linear and indulgent and that its cult status was earned on the back Rutger Hauer's closing lines, all that rain and the business hoodoo (save for Coke, all the companies that were up in neon lights went bust).
There will be no debate among us over Blade Runner 2049. It has the original beat for being ridiculously indulgent by a mile. OH MY GOD, does every scene need to be that long and lingering that one could doze off and wake up to Ryan Gosling having taken maybe three steps forward in a scene? When a movie runs for as long as BR2049 does, it needs to give us something...at the very least someone to root for - the closest we come to is Harrison Ford's Deckard who is old and craggy and the barely there pulse of the movie (and even then we have to wait till the final 45 or so minutes). I like Ryan Gosling but he was wasted in this, as were the other cast members.
Fanboys may prop this up but even die-hard fans will know deep down that this isn't as sharp as the trailers and hype would have you believe.