Do You Need To Have Seen The Original? ..er.. YES!

Rating: 5/10 (10 October 2017)

I watched Blade Runner (Final Cut) a few days ago to remind me of the world and notice the 'inner references'. Having done so and now seen BR2049, I can say you won't appreciate the main plot to BR2049 without having seen it.
Harrison Ford isn't in it just to sell tickets, it really is Blade Runner + 30 years.
Whilst the cast are all good and there's some interesting concepts, the main thread is what happened after Rachel & Deckard left together at the end of Blade Runner.
I watched the shorts on YouTube ahead of BR2049 and really enjoyed those - although '2038' & '2048' both feel like deleted scenes from BR2049, they are worth watching.
BR2049 - Visually/musically: great but actually really proved that it was visually amazing in the '80s and hard to top. I don't feel the need to see another Denis Villeneuve anytime soon.
Way....tooo...looong!!
I really enjoy Ryan Gosling, but the pace matched his usual mood far too well
I would have liked a standalone story about Ryan Gosling being a Blade Runner, not a direct sequel to the first one, (And a definition of why they are called Blade Runners a well!) so more like a reboot I guess.