by Australia » Sat Oct 07, 2017 7:39 pm
This movie is fantastic. I dare say it's better than the first. Having said that, you probably have to like Blade Runner to enjoy 2049. The original Blade Runner I loved the first time I saw it but the slow pace gets exponentially noticeable with every re-watch, since I've seen all the imagery before, and by now it's demoted to a movie I really like. And 2049 would probably have a similar issue because there are several long scenes, particularly at the start, but it was never boring, at least on my first viewing. The weakest part of the movie is Jared Leto not being anywhere near as compelling a villain as Rutger Hauer but mercifully he's only used sporadically. It's funny, until The Nice Guys, I didn't give a single shit about Ryan Gosling and now he's fast becoming one of my favourite actors.
It's the best so far of Harrison Ford's victory lap of his classic characters. I would say this is the best of the entire range of 'decades between' sequels but Mad Max: Fury Road exists. Anyway, between this, Logan, Guardians, Trainspotting, Skull Island and Kingsman, it's been a great year for sequels. Xander Cage does not count because that franchise was always garbage. Oh, yeah, Pirates and Alien. And the new Jumanji movie looks worse with every trailer. Shut up.
Oh, in case you were wondering, you only have to see the first Blade Runner to get the context of the movie. I completely missed the last two thousand and forty seven instalments and if I missed anything, they were just Easter eggs for the diehard fans and not major plot points.
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