A mediocre and soulless 'blockbuster'. Expensively bad movie making.

Rating: 4/10 (7 October 2017)

This review does contain a very minor spoiler.
The original Bladerunner is one of my favourite movies of all time, very atmospheric, great story and plot with interesting characters, great soundtrack, visually stunning. a true classic. i saw it at the cinema when it first came out and have watched it many times since. this sequel does not hold a candle to the original movie, in fact i would call it an abomination. Nonsensical plot and script to begin with, overlong and dead boring in most scenes, soundtrack consists of painfully loud synthesizer ugliness as opposed to the sublime beauty and atmosphere of Vangelis's soundtrack which really elevated the original movie by capturing, conveying every intended mood - tenderness, loneliness, menace, vastness, sentimentality and more. The people still involved from the original movie must have been squirming inside during the making and promotion of this film. the only pass this movie gets from me is the cinematography which was OK. Overall, hopelessly inferior to the original movie in every aspect and I'm sure it cost many times the original to make. To me, it follows the general trend of Hollywood so-called 'blockbusters', totally over-hyped and generally poor movies. i do see good movies out of Hollywood occasionally but they are usually the ones which go under the radar, as did the original Bladerunner when it came out.
How to describe what this movie is missing? the best scene in the movie was where Deckard feeds his dog whiskey! the only scene with an ounce of 'realness' in it, something to connect to, otherwise its all overly pretentious and ponderous, lacking inspiration, going through the motions. Visually stylish but no depth or substance behind the appearance. Like the old saying 'The Emperor has no clothes on'