Las Vegas is not what it used to be

Rating: 1/10 (15 October 2017)

The "hero" of BR2049 is detective K, a replicant that chases other replicants. Why? It does seems a stupid idea, but apparently the new, Nexus 8 replicants are more "obedient" than their predecessors.
K kills an escaped replicant, only to discover a big "secret" that the humans want to cover up at all costs. K is then chased by the human police and by the replicants' producer. He also starts to question his memories (as in Blade Runner) to discover a disquieting truth (as in BR, but in reverse...)
Finally, K starts searching for Deckart, now living in Las Vegas with a cute dog. Deckart and K have a completely useless chase and fight scene that takes place - guess what? Just like in BR, in a huge, empty building. As a treat, we get an holographic show with Elvis, compounded by an holographic Sinatra, a couple of scenes later. That was the highlight of the movie.
The plot is wrapped up by one of stupidest plot devices: the underground's fighters group, that manoeuvres K behind the scenes. Pathetic death scene, ripped off from BR, but with snow instead of rain and you are all set for another sequel. Not me, though.
As an open question I'd like to know why I should root for the "brave" replicant underground resistance. They want to be more like humans, but humans are evil, so replicants want to get more evil... or something... whatever...
I usually avoid "sequels" (AKA: commercial operations exploiting movies that were even only slightly successful), but Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies, so I caved. However, all stories must have an end and now I know that BR stands very much alone. I wish I could erase BR2049 from my memory, because of its offensive stupidity.
It could have been just another bad Sci-Fi story, but the manipulation of nostalgic crowd probably proved more successful.
I give half point to the dog and the other half to the holograms, which were cool.