A total downer

Rating: 3/10 (6 October 2017)

OK, let's stipulate upfront that the visuals are stunning (stunning visuals are a commodity in today's cinema); the rest is a total downer. The storytelling is slow and boring, unfolding for nearly three, excruciatingly long and unnecessary hours. The plot is weak and implausible, with a final twist, except that the plot is too thin to support a any twist. Still, the movie carries such a pretentious air, kinda "hey, watch carefully, I am really an important movie", that I found irritating. Now, I walked into the cinema after a self-brainwash: don't expect to see a sequel to Blade Runner, I told myself, icons cannot be replicated; I did not want my judgment of the new movie to be biased by a nostalgia effect for the original; yet I was still hoping to see a great movie. Well, it's not...and it was painful too see Ridley Scott giving away, after Alien, another of his franchise.