Loved it, a pleasant surprise

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2018)

I feel the bar has been set so low these days, I find most of the action movies coming out to be complete garbage. I'm thinking here about all the heroes movies, transformers and the likes who are just bland and pointless with stories that are getting more and more ridiculous.
I am also a huge Star Wars fan and I think what they are doing now with the two new movies is taking a huge dump all over the Star Wars universe and everything about it and while watching Blade Runner I couldn't help but wonder why did Star Wars get stuck with the village idiots and while other movies can have this amazing of a sequel so many years later.
The movie is wonderful visually, making a seamless transition from the 80's movie to the new one, they blend perfectly. The story is good and it has a lot of little details and cool things if you are careful to look for them. I was actually looking at the snow flakes towards the end and I was wondering if they were going to be fake looking like they always to din movies and I had the pleasant surprise to see that the ones that landed on Gosling were melting after a second or two. But there are a lot of fun little things like that, I might rewatch it just to catch more of them. The love scene with the AI is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time and there are other thought provoking ideas.
The main character is a little dry and you don't quite bond with him like you should which is the only main flaw of this movie, however, because of what the character represents, making him more humane would have probably lost some of the feel of the movie.
Overall I am impressed, haven't liked a movie this much in a while, I've been constantly disappointed, especially by the two pieces of garbage that are the new Star Wars movies but this one proved to be a winner.