Wow! Just wow! great, great movie. Enjoyed every minute..

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2017)

I had high hopes for this movie. I was a massive Blade Runner fan, probably watching the various versions of releases at least two or three times a year since its release. I watched the trailers, yep all of them, including the ones that weren't even in the movie?! And with the sort of expectations that I had I really worried that the movie would be a disappointment. It was so far removed from that it actually exceeded my expectations by vast amounts.
Ryan Gosling was absolutely brilliant, in fact, he was more deserving of an Oscar for his acting than any of the recent winners and frankly that is sad because this sort of movie doesn't even make the consideration stage. His role led me into a myriad of questions and ultimately left me realizing that only he could top the end play in the original, which I might add he did to perfection.
Harrison Ford was great, he mirrored some of his previous performance and some of the scenes he was in left you feeling you could be looking at earth in 2049, certainly the tech side and the way older people, even today, try to hold on to some of the old traditions, styles and lifestyles.
As for the special effects; they were exactly what was needed to give the same look and feel as the original, although I believe that the number of times running water, standing water and rain, was present may have been a tad over the top and certainly doesn't help with a longer movie for us older folks who pine for the return of the intermission (AKA bathroom break!).
A masterpiece of cinematic brilliance which not only compliments the original, takes a story that is 100% plausible (sort of) and makes it work. My only criticism would be that there is no way that a digital release could do either the cinematic or audio the justice that it rightly deserves.
Final comment: where did all those trailer segments go? I assume that there will be a number of special releases just as there was for the original?