A new LAPD Officer (Ryan Gosling) manages to find a secret forgotten long time ago, which is able to put all what left of the society into chaos. These events take place thirty years after the events of the first film. As a result, K is forced by the consequences of his discovery to find the former LAPD blade runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who's been missing for the past thirty years.
In any futuristic film, it always seems as if the acting takes a backseat to its visual features. In "Blade Runner 2049," Ryan Gosling offers up his most complex and alluring work since "Drive."
A meditative and moving film, sumptuously photographed by legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins in the finest and most astonishing work of his career.
The rare sequel that truly merits its existence, updating and expanding the themes of the 1982 original to bring them from the 20th century into the 21st.
Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins give us staggering new visions of the future, ones that confound and trance and mystify in Blade Runner 2049 even while making rich cinematic senses.
Is Blade Runner 2049 a masterpiece like its predecessor? Definitely not. It's not even a match for 2016's superb Arrival, the previous film from director Denis Villeneuve. Yet on its own terms, it's a dazzling achievement.
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.
From the grayed-out countrysides over which the sky has closed like a lid; to the drizzly neon decadence of Los Angeles; to the Ozymandian wreckage of Las Vegas-the film is a visual splendor of the first order.
