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Last Updated: Mar 11, 2018 - 8:01:57 AM |
This movie does not have a tagline. A synthetic police officer hired to exterminate other bio-engineered beings unearths a buried secret that could plunge the remnants of human society on the planet into a chaotic maelstrom. He must track down the whereabouts of a former police officer with a personal connection to his present case to piece together the puzzle that may quell the coming storm or violently disrupt humanity’s status quo.
K is a police officer for the Los Angeles Police Department in the Blade Runner Division who happens to be a replicant dealing with prejudice as he hunts his own kind to uncover a long-buried conspiracy. Joi is K’s loving holographic girlfriend created by the Wallace Corporation who he has upgraded to be able to accompany him on his present case for moral support. Rick Deckard is a retired Blade Runner who went missing 30 years ago with an experimental rogue replicant and is K’s primary suspect for closing his case while answering a final query. Luv is a bloodthirsty replicant working for Niander Wallace of the Wallace Corporation looking for the being the conspiracy was built to protect for her creator to exploit.
Blade Runner 2049 is a practically perfect sequel that expands the story of its predecessor while succeeding in being its own stunning achievement in paced narrative brilliance. This film is a visual feast for the eye to behold with details that convince you that you are spending time in an advanced yet bleak future Earth. Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks and Harrison Ford all give performances that are able to take the audience through a myriad of human emotions from scene to scene. Denis Villeneuve proves once again why he is one of the greatest visionary directors of this current generation with a future that grows brighter with each project he works on. Hampton Fancher and Michael Green deliver a screenplay that while being short on dialogue is able to contextualize a dystopia built on the backs of the extraordinary minority made to feel obsolete by the ordinary majority. The music by Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch is a bit overbearing in some scenes but work well in others to give weight to the magnitude of what we are witnessing. If the first movie could be compared to The Maltese Falcon then this one could be compared to China Town with a neo noir science fiction aesthetic. It brought to mind episodes of Exo-Squad, TekWar and Star Trek Voyager or films like Her, Logan’s Run and 2001: A Space Odyssey. If I had any complaints with this cinematic masterpiece it would be with the slowness of the story, but I must admit it allowed me to better appreciate the breathtaking special effects. I rate this film a rating of 4 & 1/2 out of 5.
In Theaters
Blade Runner 2049
See other reviews by Rouén HERE.
Rouén Robinson has been an
avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures
for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for
The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for
FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen
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