This is a true masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2019)

I loved Harrison Ford in movies until he played old man Indy and then I became quite ageist (I'm getting on myself...). I just thought he waited too long to make the movie and then was very skeptical going into to watch Blade Runner 2049 given the recent star wars fiasco. I was so pleasantly surprised.
This film has an amazing number of twists that you could never guess. It is a masterpiece. Its slow moving like the original (interestingly the original looks so dated now, and isn't actually that great). You almost want to say as you are watching this movie, "This is making me bored", but you can't bring yourself to say that. Its just so well paced that it makes for compulsive watching.
It dark and moody and yet light and fluffy in some parts. The A.I. ideas where quite interesting and as a technologist I found them particularly intriguing. The look of the movie is so close to the original, but the effects are flawless. Some of the best visual effects since Oblivion.
I thought La La Land was the biggest lot of tripe and deserved no oscars, and was concerned about the fact that Ryan Gosling might be poor in the part, but he was absolutely amazing. He pulled off not being quite human but as the movie progresses he becomes more and more human.
This movie has one of the greatest cinematic bad guys of all time in my opinion. The voice change of the baddy in some scenes is quite startling and unnerving. They definitely should have received a nomination for their work. Don't want to reveal any more than that. Not giving any spoilers away. Just to say, I'm not talking about Wallace.
Even my 16 year old son loved it, which is interesting, given that he turned Blade Runner off after 40 minutes. He found the original so boring and dated. This sequel is definitely worth a watch. And then you have to watch it again to catch the bits you missed the first time.
Using my own statistical rule of "little amount of advertisement = quality movie", or "too much advertisement on side of bus=flop", I have to say, I didn't see any adverts for this movie at all. This is a movie that needs no introduction or overselling. Its a movie that will be noticed over time for the great movie that it is.
Definitely up there with Interstellar, Inception, Oblivion, Empire (V) as my favourite sci-fi's of all time.