BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017)
Featuring: Harrison Ford; Ryan Gossling; Jared Leto
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Nominated for five and winner of two Oscars, this movie is the sequel to the original 1982 film. (For a review of the latter check out the post of 12 October 2016.) It received awards for best achievement in Cinematography and Visual Effects at this year's ceremony. And if you watch the movie you will understand why. The visual effects are simply mind-blowing.
Ryan Gossling is Officer 'K', a young blade runner tasked with disposing of rogue worker androids, or 'replicants' as they are known in his world. But when he uncovers a secret that can destroy the lucrative business of manufacturing these 'machines', he becomes a target himself. And in an effort to survive, he goes in search of the original Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) who disappeared thirty years before and who he believes has the answers he seeks.
You have to buy into the world of the blade runner to make any sense of the story. Fortunately these days is is a lot easier than what it was way back in the 1980's. With the huge advance of technology in general since those days the notion of a world on the brink of total ecological collapse and under the control of some evil mastermind has become a lot less outrageous. As a matter of fact it has become quite conceivable for our world to move in the direction as depicted in movies like this. And that is scary...
I rate it 3 out of 5 stars.
Trailer link:
The world of Blade Runner
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