it's good but it ain't no classic.

Rating: 1/10 (6 November 2017)

Blade Runner, Blade Runner, Blade Runner.
Now then: Blade Runner 2049.
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I've been waiting to see this for years. Blade Runner is in my top ten films of all time and to prepare myself for this I re-watched Blade Runner again the other day.
This new film has so many good points and SO MANY bad points that it sadly left me cold. As I sat in the theatre at the end as the final credits ran did I feel elated? Did I feel excited? Did I feel emotional? No I did not.
Ultimately it just did not have that much effect on me, except possibly on my bladder which was not impressed at all.
It does have some really beautiful moments, but that is all set design and cinematography. I can't think of a single scene where the action was amazing or the dialogue was stellar. And all the visuals were directly inspired by the original film, and I couldn't see anything that the new director had bought to the film. Where was his original vision?
I'm so bored of films that are supposed to be a bit more cerebral and then the main blokes just punch each other in the face, again and again, and oh Yawn, what's happening now? Oh some bloke is punching another bloke in the face. Yawn.
The original Blade Runner had great action scenes, Dekkard chasing the Skin Job through the shopping centre or the final conflict with Rutger!
All I could see on this film was the arrogance of the Director's Ego all over the place (I also felt this in Arrival, which I hated, and, yes, I know everyone else thought it was the wonderful, I was so disappointed it wasn't a film about ABBA) and any holes in the script, and there were many, were just ignored. I mean if skin-jobs were not meant to reproduce then surely not putting a womb and eggs in the female and no sperm in the male might have been a sensible place to start?
And what about Mr Blindo? what about him? He's still a nut job. And really they have been looking for this Baby Blade Runner for 30 years and the entire LAPD and Mr Nutjob and all his little nut jobs can't find a single clue and agent Joe just finds a date on a tree and... oh rubbish, this is rubbish.
I felt having cameos from the previous film and then killing them off so blatantly (Rachel) were just cheap shots (pun intended) and destroying Dekkard's original Flyer was a total Yawn moment.
So many completely cut-table scenes and so much exposition. And waiting 60 odd minutes for Harrison Ford to turn up and then give him nothing to do..? I felt like I was watching Star Wars 7 and just waiting for Han Solo to turn up. I mean If I was making a movie and I'd managed to get Harrison Ford in it I'd get him in earlier and give him something cool to do!!
There are several books out there set in the Blade Runner world and I suggest Reading Blade Runner 2 by KW Jeter which is a HUGELY better than this.
Blade Runner 2049: 4 out of 5 - it's good but it ain't no classic. Pretty disappointing.