Blade Runner may have shaped the future,
but it’s easy to forget its past. Now universally
accepted as a classic, Ridley Scott’s future-noir
fantasy, flopped in 1982, widely dismissed
as an exercise in ravishing emptiness, as
eye-catchingly hollow as Rachael, the glamorous
“replicant” played by Sean Young. Late-in-the-day
recuts didn’t help, adding an explanatory
narration and dopey happy ending following
negative test screenings. Indeed, it was only
when Blade Runner was reconfigured via a
1992 Director’s Cut, and later Scott’s
definitive Final Cut, that its masterpiece
status was assured, sitting alongside Fritz
Lang’s Metropolis and Kubrick’s 2001 in
the pantheon of world-building sci-fi.
No such tribulations await Blade Runner 2049,
which has opened to the kind of critical adoration
that sorely evaded Scott’s original. Yet Arrival director
Denis Villeneuve’s audacious sequel, co-written
by original screenwriter Hampton Fancher,
really is as good as the hype suggests, spectacular
enough to win over new generations of viewers,
yet deep enough to reassure diehard fans that
their cherished memories haven’t been reduced
to tradable synthetic implants.
The sights are staggering, yet the real triumphs
of Blade Runner 2049 are beautifully low-key.
Carla Juri injects real magic into a heart-breaking,
dream-weaving scene; Sylvia Hoeks rivals Rutger
Hauer as Luv, the ass-kicker with terrifying
tears; and Ana de Armas brings three-dimensional
warmth to a character who is essentially a
digital projection.
Narratively, Fancher and co-writer Michael
Green pull off a remarkable narrative sleight
of hand that leaves the audience as devastatingly
wrongfooted as Gosling’s cosmic detective.
As for Villeneuve, he teases away at the enigmatic
identity riddle at the centre of Scott’s
movie, brilliantly sustaining the mystery
of a blade runner’s true nature .
I would give this film a rating of 6 out of
10 stars. Because i felt this film is a bit
slow. But anyways if you guys like it more
then it's perfectly alright. So, lots of love
and see you soon guys.
