loved it!

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2018)

Did you spot the reference to Spike Jonze's Her?
This movie is a treat, one of the rarest sequels that surpass the original and like the original, it will live for many years to come and age perfectly like a nice bottle of wine. Visually it's a masterpiece like a space-time colorful LSD trip, the cinematography is beautiful, outstanding and ecstatic thanks to the work of Roger Deakins who succeeds at creating an apocalyptic, empty and lonely future at the image of our protagonist. Plus this movie learned from its predecessor faults; it gave us characters with depth and struggle and a nicely built up story full of turns and twists something the original movie lacked I don't know if it was on purpose or not but it took off from it, but in 2049 we dive deep into the characters lives for example, we see joe at home, joe the human and Joe the lover unlike Deckard in 1982 we see joe outside work, and we feel his struggle, loneliness, and identity crisis and this adds to the complexity of the plot with its thematic about the search of meaning and love, and its universal question "what makes us humans?". I really loved it even if it was long and the ending is just outstanding one of the best I've ever seen so rather than focusing on the special one (the girl) they focused on a simple copy, its identity, and its the existential crisis in the middle of a replicant revolution! and this is one of the points that bothered a lot of fans who wanted to see more action and more time, but this movie isn't about action nor rhythm, it's a study of life through the Joe and if you're looking for a simply entertaining action movie this is not the one for.