Raises more questions than it answers!

Rating: 7/10 (31 December 2017)

And it's not like this movie is giving you any solid information so that you could try to answer them or make up your own plausible answer. It's just as vague and unnecessarily poetic sometimes just like its predecessor. Speaking of its predecessor... I was not a fan of blade runner when I first saw it (being about a month and a half ago, and I only watched it because of the hype this movie had here). What made me angry with both this movies is that they are ambiguous and vague just for the sake of it and so they raise more questions than they answers. In one interview Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford argued about Rick being a replicant or not. And it's weird to see a director unsure of what he's done in a movie that he'll argue with that character's actor over it's humanity. It just shows how stupid and without any intelligence the original movie was made. It would be stupid from me to point out again that that movie was made just to show the visuals... as if that's the most important thing in a movie. This movie is no exception from that and it's actually worst than the first one. I'll focus now on what went wrong and what was good in this movie.
The story: is so sloppy that the first time I watched it, I fell asleep. So the way this movie is constructed is that scenes jump from one to the other without any real exposition as to why or how. The viewer is just supposed to go along with the story sometimes because there's no development towards some scenes or if it is, is JUST TOO SLOW! and you should be focused 200%, because again the movie is vague and you need to compensate that somehow. That's one other problem I had with this movie, it's way too slow. I understand that you need to show many beautifull scenes in order to make Roger Deakins win his first Oscar but that has nothing to do with how slow this movie is and why it is. Why? Because it's a Villeneuve movie and because it's a blade runner sequel. That's two times slower pace than usual and no wonder I fell asleep the first time. Then there are way too many "how is this happening?" or "since when?" moments or characters that sometimes do things without any purpose or reason for it and that really destroyed the enjoyment I might had with this movie. Let's not forget about the ambiguity and mystery this movie had and its numerous question... there are certain revelations that just raised more questions about that certain character or unexplained events from the past that are just mentioned at the beginning so you might know where in time you are with this movie's story but those mentions make all the events that happened between the original and this movie feel like what happened between episode VI and episode VII of star wars, to give you a strong resemblance.
The characters: really no one stood out for me. And that's because there's little to no dialogue. That could work in a movie like "Dunkirk" where it's all about an evacuation and the urgency and realism of the situation, but here is a fictional world where you can be both realistic or artistic and entertaining, but the director chosed the first one. That's probably why this movie failed at box office too. Who would want to watch or rewatch a movie this slow and with so little motivation from its characters or little entertainment.
Visuals: absolutely breathtaking and gorgeous to watch. The future displayed here is not how a future thought by a 2017 guy would look like but how the original blade runner's future would look like. The cinematography is one of the best ever and I guess no one can stop Roger Deakins from winning an oscar this year.
Soundtrack: I uderstand why the director wanted a original-like music so asked Hans Zimmer to help... but this is one of the worst soundtracks I've ever heard along with T2 Judgment Day. There is no musicality or depth to it. Neither is any suspense to it and it makes the movie experience all the more bad.
Conclusion: Bad pacing, little dialogue, no strong character development of more characters (since this should be an epic), horrible soundtrack, great visuals, superb cinematography but overall very sloppy with it's storytelling which made me sleep, so I wouldn't recomend it to anyone. Only giving it a seven for the visuals, cinematography and Ryan's performance, the rest is garbage. 7/10
PS: This movie also tried to be the start of a universe of sequels and to give ideas and plots for other blade runner movies to come... but in doing so fails to be a proper sequel.