So . . . slow . . .

Rating: 2/10 (31 August 2019)

Here's the biggest problem with BR2049. Everything . . . happens . . . so . . . slowly . . . And I do mean everything. In one scene, K goes to look for something hidden. The audience knows it's going to be there (it's so blindingly obvious) but *man* does it take him an age to get there. It's not even slo-mo. Practically every scene involves a character taking forever to walk somewhere or even get a sentence out. It echoes the interminably long silences of Gosling's Drive, except that Drive was actually interesting. Villeneuve even holds static shots for *way* longer than necessary.
Okay Denis, we get it; this movie is pensive and cerebral. That's fine, but it doesn't need to be boring. And boring it is. Yes, it deals with issues of identity, purpose and love, but its 2hrs 45mins running time could have *easily* been trimmed to just 2 hours.
BR2049 is both pretentious and dull; that's a deadly combo.