

What most got under my skin about this was that it was boring.
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Society would quake, but not crumble, because there was too little space left in the movie (yes, too little space in a movie that’s two hours and 45 minutes long) to really justify war.īlade Runner 2049 isn’t a sci-fi masterpiece, but it’s trying really hard to replicate one The other characters (especially Papa Deckard) would fall in line behind him. K would come to embrace his destiny as the leader of the replicants, casting off his overly obedient programming and joining the revolution. You could almost see the dominoes waiting to fall. His mere existence - confirmation of the idea that replicants could reproduce on their own and not rely on humans to create them - could “break the world,” according to his former boss, played by Robin Wright. Our hero, the replicant police officer K ( Ryan Gosling), was going to learn that he was the secret child of the first Blade Runner’s hero, Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford), and his replicant lover Rachael ( Sean Young). This was going to be a “chosen one” narrative, wasn’t it? Come play at about the two-hour mark of Blade Runner 2049, I felt a familiar sinking feeling.
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