A sequel that asks what it means to be human

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2017)

If Blade Runner answers the question, what is it to be a replicant, 2049 answers what it is to be human. It is the more coherent of the two and Ryan Gosling is winning and humane, delivering an exacting performance that will do everything we ask from a sequel - to extend and attribute more value to its source material.
We can emphatically ask for more - and if we do not receive more - can be content in knowing it can be ours. Because Blade Runner gives its audience a piece of ownership and we can take it with us. That is the ultimate value and power of a literary sci-fi.