Gone with the Sheep

Rating: 5/10 (9 April 2018)

You can add all the tags you want (Tech-Noir, Cyberpunk, Dystopian, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Psychological Drama, etcetera, etcetera) but beneath all the visual adornments, this is predominantly a prolonged melodrama. At 156 minutes, the Rutger Hauer/Daryl Hannah type of replicant is sorely missed, and it does not have the poetry, novelty or force of its predecessor. You have instead a couple of gratuitous scenes pretending to be funny (as the one featuring "Elvis Presley"), a mini-battle "a la Star Wars", and what is worse... almost all the plot is too predictable. Thirty years later androids no longer dream of electric sheep but visual effect galore and prepare for revolution (lol), to illustrate the weeping tale of a man searching for momma. Or so he thinks. Ryan Gosling (as in many films) is beaten to death, but he just goes on as impassible as replicants should be. Watch it.