If Blade Runner was a beautifully polished turd. Then 2049 is a rough dirty diamond.

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2020)

Tonally very different to Blade Runner but spiritually very similar. It's a magnetic film, a brisk film despite its running time, it deepens and widens the world and does the impossible; tells an interesting and different follow up, intrinsically linked to the first film but yet it's own yarn. It takes a thread about memory and it makes it it's focus. A worthy and artistic sequel and maybe the most beautiful and visually accomplished film since the first one. Consistently high quality, and a few blips aside, it's a pretty excellent film by all accounts.
Very delicately it examines memory, artifices of love and devotion, expectation and duty, cause and belief. It deftly dresses a twist in a twist and plays with many of the themes inside the film and out. Long, messy, obfuscating with glaring holes in it, but also painterly to look at, trippy, hallucinatory, tender. It rises above its flaws and produces not just a perfect sequel but a tremendous, thoughtful, elegant science fiction masterpiece.
If you like Blade Runner a lot, you'll like this a lot. I happen to, so I was won over by its complex mood. Blade Runner 2049 Succeeds spectacularly as a sequel to Blade Runner with the right balance of New and old.
It's got its flaws particularly around some generic plotting and some weak action but they really don't make them like this anymore.