Beautiful and empty replicant

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2017)

Some movies are just not to be touched, revamped and continued, since they represent cult features that changed cinematography, redefined entire genres and influenced the entire pop culture.
One of those revolutionary stories and unbeaten representations of the future is the Phillip K. Dick's and Ridley Scott's masterpiece SF-noir about the robots and artificial intelligence as the ultimate frontier of mankind, ''Bladerunner".
Unlike the many similar contemporary cash driven desires to continue the story and finally give some of the much needed answers to the 80s classics, the production team for ''Bladerunner: 2049" lead by the creator of the original, Ridley Scott, did their homework and did it well.
They chose one of the best directors in Hollywood right now, Dennis Villeneuve and casted one of the more stellar crews in recent history of SF making (Gosling, Wright, Leto and of course, Harrison Ford).
The visual result was just stunning, since gifted director meticulously solved every single detail in each scene. Transferring the legendary atmosphere of the first part of the (unfortunately) saga was just done with flying colors and that deserves every appraisal.
However, this is where the good things top and give way to the cancer that's eating 21st century Hollywood.
Lame scripts.
Just to be clear, the original ''Bladerunner" was probably the weakest script of all the Top 10 movies of all times it rightfully belongs to, but was also the revolutionary insight into the future, offering some of the most intriguing and so exploited concepts that followed it.
''Bladerunner: 2049" doesn't have any of those things, since it offers neither new concepts, neither viable characters, nor acting or even some decent answers. It just wanders off, not showing any signs of life and driving the stellar crew into the average, while making the script look blunt and unfinished.
''Bladerunner: 2049" is a beautiful replicant of the original movie, with some great camera, color, production and light, but also with a mediocre script unworthy of the name it continues.