Some stories should be left alone leaving it up to the viewer to interpret and not pursue further.

Rating: 7/10 (17 January 2018)

Just finished watching. I can understand why Denis Villeneuve shaved off scenes as the story would be the length of another film I loved called WATCHMEN over 3 hours.
Visually, the film is very good coming in close to it's 1982 predecessor. The digital rendering, rotoscope animation and the artists that helped bring all of that to life is impressive. The entire cast also did a very good job. However the critical scene that caught me was the recreation of "Rachel" who was portrayed by a then 22-year old Sean Young 36 years ago (she's 57 now by the way). That is computer animation, talented artistry and digital imaging at it's finest.
That being said, truth be told I am not happy that this sequel was made much less the three short films preceding it explaining this story 30+ years later. The thing with me is some stories are FINITE. Some stories should be left alone leaving it up to the viewer to interpret and not pursue further.
Again, great work to the cast and crew. But it should not have been done.