Audio visual masterpiece, everything else is garbage

Rating: 6/10 (8 October 2017)

Pros:

Cinematography. Beautiful shots, insane color palette, amazing sound design. This movie actually ranks as my number 2 best looking movie of all time (first being Neon Demon by Nicolas WInding Refn). Insanity!

Ryan Gosling. Perfect casting choice

Cons:

the story! The story presented in this movie is not only uninteresting, but it also has no freaking impact on anything that's been done in the first movie and on the future of everyone involved! It's stunning to me that movie of this magnitude can be so hollow and pointless!

runtime and pacing. This is 2,5 hours movie and it feels like it, mostly because of the dreadfully slow pacing. Don't get me wrong, pacing can be slow and interesting (Hell or High Water from recent examples), but in Blade Runner 2049 it reminded me of 'Only God Forgives' by Nicolas Winding Refn (it's like someone copy-pasted Ryan Gosling from one movie to the other). Everything that the characters do in 2049 is an event, even if it's something as mundane as lighting the cigarette, sitting on a chair looking somewhere or walking around. If they cut out the bullshit, the movie would last a good hour less and it would make it much more watchable imo.

action scenes. Trailers looked actions heavy, the movie itself contains like 4 scenes that you could describe as 'action', they last for about 3 minutes COMBINED. Not that I care, this kind of a movie's story can be told without big action setpieces, but come on.

secondary characters. Just useless 2 minutes scenes vomiting exposition at you. They are also useless. 'My name is this and I do this' cut away to 5 minutes of Ryan Gosling walking towards the camera in the rain. ARGH...

the villain. Jared Leto has nothing to do in this movie. His scenes last for like 5 minutes and have no impact on anything. The female sidekick replicant was 10 times more interesting, which is just sad :P

I could go on, but what's the point. This movie gets 6 from me for visuals alone. The rest is trash.
Final thought - just watch the 3 shorts released as a promo materials. They are much more interesting than the movie itself...