A good sequel that didn't need to be made !

Rating: 2/10 (7 October 2017)

I love the original , in fact it's my favorite film , the original cut mind you, not the fiddled it's editions.
So there's was never a need for a part two.. it left the two main characters right where it needed to be , a happy , slightly ambiguous ending
Spoilers now ahead ... u have been warned .....
This sequel ruins that by writing its own ending to Deckard and Rachel. A sad ending .
The visuals were spectacular, -the palette, cinematography anid editing outstanding...that's it. It was disquietingly 'comforting' to revisit Scott's beloved dystopia...for about 30 minutes. Unfortunately, the script and characters lacked dimensions and depth, and the storyline (simple) was drawn out inexorably. It lacked the rawness of emotion and the moments of delightful 'whimsy' of its predecessor, and the all-important soundtrack was jarring, repetitive and monotonous.
Why Vangelis wasn't asked to do it , is beyond me. Hans Zimmer is a great composer , however totally wrong for this movie. Harrison Ford is hardly in the movie , and being taken off world fir info ? Why couldn't he be asked for info on earth ? Made no sense .
While all the major characters were set up to have a lot of potential -none of them realised it. Jared Leto in particular was just rammed home as "Very bad guy"..absolutely no conflicts or ambiguities to make his character any more than a ho-hum antagonist. He just shouldn't have been in the movie at all. It made no sense too.
Harrison/Deckert at least had some colours in his character but he hardly appeared , and Rachel is in it for 2 minutes - but I'm not sure I didn't overlay most of them from my memories of the original. I walked out saying 'Hmmmm', definitely nothing like 'wow'.