Not Aging Well

Rating: 6/10 (3 September 2019)

I liked this the first time-around because it's mysterious, but you keep expecting a lot of action and fun and that never really happens. Watching it again a few years later it seems, ah hmm...perhaps a bit boring. It has some good moments,(I'm thinking of Elvis serenading Han Solo as he repeatedly punches Gosling harder than Pine punches Cumberbatch in Star Trek Into Darkness. I take that back. After watching it again its clear Kirk beats on Khan ten times harder in Star Trek Into Darkness, a movie that came out four years earlier. They should have got the same special effects team to oversee the beating) 2049 tends to stay in the key of Slit your wrist - this future world is void of trees and smiles, and even the hookers are trying to pull a fast one on you. The dreary minor music adds to the lonely ambience. All you have is your fake hologram girlfriend and existential questions. Ending seemed rushed and didn't really address Wallace or the issue of knocking off expired androids.