Rather flat replica of the original Blade Runner

Rating: 5/10 (14 October 2017)

I went to 2049 with the highest expectations - I learned to deeply love BR throughout countless watchings in countless settings and mindsets. I also developed huge respect for Denis Villeneuve after seeing Sicario and Arrival. I wanted to max out the experience so I went straight for VIP seats in Dolby Atmos equipped cinema. I slept on my review.
The bottom line for anyone eager to read the conclusion straight away is that 2049 is too-slow-too-artsy journey into a visually stunning, yet flat and inhuman Blade Runner-like world.
The dynamics of all three reference movies (Blade Runner, Sicario and Arrival) is gone. You don't get bored, but on regular basis you keep thinking "alright bro, just move it". The sound is AMAZING, but as with the visuals, there are too many occasions when it becomes self-indulging and standing out of the overall experience.
The plot - as I already mentioned, is rather flat. Not that it was dull or anything, just somehow uninteresting. The problem might be, there's not enough human (or rather humanly behaving) characters along the way. Maybe it's intentional, but the result is alienation and indifference to pretty much anything that happens along the way.
Would I recommend seeing the movie in the cinema? I guess. But I remember movies, with half the budget and half the talent behind that I went to see twice on the big screen. This one ain't it. Although it had all the pre-conditions required to be.