Too many inconsistencies

Rating: 2/10 (31 October 2017)

The original Bladerunner is one of my all time favorite movies. This one is way below average. I fear some people who see this one before the original, will now miss out on the original, as they will assume it is bad as well. Watch the original, is has nothing to do with this thing!
Anyway. The strong sides of Bladerunner 2049 are: Nice visuals overall, good scenes here and there; I like the music. It is good if you like to just visuals and a story is not your thing.
The pace is slow, the dialogue is very forgettable and boring, even in scenes that offer golden opportunities for memorable lines, for instance the goodbye scene after the root-hologram-robot threesome. Characters are undeveloped; they forget to build sympathy for the heroes. The rebel leader for instance; she should be designed to make you feel either positive or negative toward their cause. As it was, you really don't care if they manage with their revolution or not.
K's hologram girlfriend I liked though, they should have made her the main character instead and built the movie around her. For me she was a redeeming factor.
*SPOILERS* Now to a very weak part ... the many inconsistencies and illogical things.
* The evil robot woman can effortlessly walk into LAPD and kill the police boss and steal forensic evidence. They apparently have no security whatsoever in the LAPD and haven't invented security cameras yet. Also she hangs out in the archives for no reason.
* The evil mastermind knows that the evil mastermind from the original knew how to make robots capable of pregnancy; for unknown reasons he decides to not science it by himself, it seems to me that a scientific genius would try to do that. Instead he opts to find a robot daughter, that he has no idea is even alive or dead. His goal is to create *a lot* of robots; why having the robots get pregnant is better than just building them makes no sense and is not explained. He seemingly kills a lot of his robots himself for no reason (he offs two, but it seems to be his general habit); this maybe is the reason he does not have enough. As well, he only has ONE robot and a few goons to his dirty work for him; he seems though to have money to afford more than just ONE agent. When he catches Harrison Ford (Deckard), he gets a really dumb idea to make Deckard give up his daughter: "Please trade me your daughter for a bad copy (wrong eye color) of your dead wife." How anybody sane would think somebody would take this trade is beyond me. Then he decides to cart Deckard into space presumably to torture him them there because the torture in space is better than torture on Earth; why not just torture him right away on Earth? In sum, he came off more like being dumb and crazy, rather than a mastermind.
* The prostitute is sent to get info on K; she settles for a 2 minute talk, and then just leaves it. Later, K's hologram girlfriend needs a prostitute and randomly call this one - how lucky for the prostitute. I think she is a terrible spy with incredible luck!
* K himself is at one point saved from scavengers by missiles mysteriously appearing from the sky; he just goes "whatever" and does not seem interested in figuring out where the came from, or if he is bugged. Some investigator. * Deckard sees K has a toy horse that belonged to Deckard's daughter; he does not seem to care where K got this from. Also: An important lead is a sock from Deckard's daughter, that K finds in a piano in Deckard's old flat. Since Ford left the apartment way before his daughter was born (in the original), he must have returned with one of his daughters socks, to stuff it into the piano. But why? Why would somebody risk life and limb to stuff a sock into a piano?
At times the movie is repetitive: the toy horse figures so much it gets irritating; the effect of using real company names for future stuff is also overused. Even the cool street scenes get old, as there's too much of them.
They tried getting as many things from the original into this one; a few times it worked, most of the time it is just put of place or badly done. The scene with Deckard's old police colleague is evidently there just to get the iconic origami-making policeman into the movie; if you have not seen the original this scene must seem just pointless and leave you wondering if it was about something you missed. But no; it is just pointless and should have been cut out.
Overall I'd say probably do not watch it at all; you can maybe watch it at home on a rainy Wednesday evening if you have nothing else to do and then accept the story is nonsense and the characters are weak, and just enjoy the visuals. I nearly walked out of the cinema and probably would not manage to finish it at home.