I've seen things you people wouldn't believe

Rating: 9/10 (9 October 2017)

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Maybe it was boosted by the IMAX experience, but I was hyperventilating.
Visually, Blade Runner 2049 is a gorgeous, goose bumping, dazzling, mind-blowing, revamped and upgraded version of original aesthetic of Blade Runner.
And it has been done in an honored and respectful way:
1. We still felt that same neo-noir immersive sensation with the drizzling rain, huge shadowy buildings, neon billboards and flying cars through the misty night over an endless cyberpunk city.
2. Hans Zimmer got us as close as possible to classic Vangelis music score (still the men to worship). Even the ending scene uses the exact same track ("Tears in Rain") for the Rutger Hauer's epic monologue.
3. The audio archives of the dialogues between Deckard and Rachael, Rachael's picture and newly made replicant, short appearance of Edward James Olmos ("Gaff") and details go even to the hair and makeup of the girls.
4. Harrison Ford, whose appearance represents, besides real human charisma, the decisive link to the original movie.
However, the not so good parts of the movie are:
1. The main relationship of the movie: Ryan Gosling (as "K") and its stunning virtual girlfriend - Joi - an A.I. technological gadget. Because of this, the movie looks too focused on a theme that some other movies (like Her or A.I.) already went through: how technology and artificial intelligence can be ultimately enhanced to match humans.
2. There's too much time dedicated to Jared Leto (as Wallace) - a typical clichéd comics villain, which I think it is a misfit with the "Blade Runner world".
3. The movie has some slow progression parts, that can make us look at our watch and then it seems that, suddenly, there was no time left – it rushes to a short and compressed ending, that could have been much more exhaustive (I am hoping for a "Directors/Final Cut").
It's not a perfect movie but, at least, I really saw things you people wouldn't believe...