Saturday 16 June 2018

Dickens by way of Scott and Dick


Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Directed by Denis Villeneuve this sequel stars Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright and Harrison Ford. A replicant working as a blade runner for the LAPD is ordered to hunt down the first child of a replicant.

I was deeply uneasy about the idea of a Blade Runner sequel but this film does a really great job on delivering on the impossible. Not only does it recapture the look and feel of the original perfectly it manages to find an interesting story to tell without retreading the original material or giving in to fan service. Deeply impressive, you have to take your hat off to the people behind this given how easy it would have been to make a total disaster here.

5/5

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