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| Year of first release: 2017 | |
| Director: Denis Villeneuve | |
| Actors: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Jared Leto, Sylvia Hoeks, Ana de Armas | |
| Country: USA, GB, CDN, HUN | |
| Genre: Drama, Polar, SF | |
| Conditions of visioning: 12.12.2017, Cinemaxx, German version | |
| Synopsis: LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. | |
| Review: I had to watch this movie in the theater but did not managed it until the last week of screening in town! And now, only the German version is presented. But it was fine. The dark atmosphere of Blade Runner is given again and sometimes even darker. There is almost no advertisement like in the original Blade Runner. It is also raining a lot. I loved the story, dark, complex. A quest in the self of K, a quest in the history of the world, a quest in the history of the Tyrell company (taken over by Wallace, Jared Leto). I liked the love story between the replicant K and the app Joi (de Armas); nice parallel to the romance between human and replicant in the original movie. Many current societal topics are shown genetic engineering, nuclear disaster, power of industrial conglomerate, digital love. The acting performance is somehow damped by the German version, as I would have expected from Jared Leto and Harrison Ford the perfect tone as they already have the perfect face. Strange not to see Jared Leto's eyes. Even Ryan Gosling is more expressive than usual. Visually the movie is amazing. The scenery in the nuclear-contaminated area is so visually impressive, the colours, the light and the architecture. The light inside K's apartment is great as it allows to play with the presence of Joi. Beautiful! Only with the visuals and off tone, the darkness of the near future is given by Denis Villeneuve. |
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Rating: 9 /10
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Thursday, December 28, 2017
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
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Since I am a child I have always had trouble watching Blade Runner because of its very slow pace. Stubborn, I watch it nonetheless once every decade in ever better conditions and my opinion of it did improve over the years, especially at the latest viewing in DVD (original version and original cut) on a home cinema around 2010. This remind me that the next viewing is due in a few years, this time in Blu-Ray or 4K, maybe the Director's cut...
ReplyDeleteAnyway past this context, I find that Blade Runner 2049 is the best sequel that could have been done to the Dark SF classic (when you mention Dark SF it makes me think of The Naked Lunch and Dark City). This can rarely be said, and the last (and maybe only) time I did so was for Mad Max: Fury Road. In that case I said that the original director was the only one that could have done it, so it is even more impressive that in the case of Blade Runner, a different director could be up to the task of succeeding to Ridley Scott. But Dennis Villeneuve is no ordinary director and we have often praised his work on JoRafCinema, from Prisoners to Enemy and Arrival.
He just managed to capture the essence of the first movie, build on it, project the Universe 30 years forward, correct or adapt what needed to be for a modern audience, and show just enough of the first movie but not too much (I like that Deckard plays only a limited role). I appreciated the "complex" story that doesn't follow the pre-programmed tracks of what we usually see coming from Hollywood.
I also agree with the rest of your review, and was in particular touched by the digital romance and its ending.
Maybe because of the non-optimal viewing conditions, the movie get from me a 8/10.