Blade Runner 2049

Rating: 6/10 (9 October 2017)

Let's begin positive. Blade Runner 2049 is a lot more ambitious than the original movie from 1982, with a boring Harrison Ford in the leading role. In the new sequel Ryan Gosling plays a new version of a replicant (called K) and it's very descent compared with Ford 35 years ago. Gosling is at his best in the scenes he plays together with Ana de Armas, who is a virtual lust object/ housewife (Joi) in the film. That part about Ana made me really thing about the 2013 movie 'Her', and was one of the better parts of the movie I think. Also the visuals (less then i expected), landscapes, city's and especially the score were bigger, and sometimes HUGE. All those things were the perfect elements to make a movie you totally get sucked in with. Unfortunately Denis Villeneuve didn't manage to stick all these parts together, what results is a movie what wants to be gigantic but ends up disappointing. By 'ends up disappointing' I don't mean the end of the story, but the whole movie in general. The plot of the sci-fi movie, and how it is told, is not that good I think. The first part of the movie (until K thinks he is the son) is much too long and exhausting. It's a build up to a twist that everybody already saw coming after watching 20 minutes of the movie. But that's not really the case. The case is that 20/30 minutes after this twist there is another twist that makes the whole first tiresome 90 minutes totally irrelevant. Only the 'more human than human' part lives one. I think this part can be okay and is interesting. Sadly also this theme fails to come forward in the plot. Jared Leto? I have really nothing to say about him. I loved the kind of sex scene between K and Joi. The scene between Gosling and Ford in the casino/music hall was also something special. The shots from above the city were stunning. Harrison Ford was okay, the character Luv was not very extended but played well. And again the score is enormous. Enough necessities to just go and see this movie in cinema. One tip: don't be wearily if you see this movie.