Blade Runner 2049

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Blade Runner 2049

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Released Oct 6, 2017

2h 44m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.

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Visually stunning and narratively satisfying, Blade Runner 2049 deepens and expands its predecessor's story while standing as an impressive filmmaking achievement in its own right.

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Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

If every new film made today is to a greater or lesser degree an echo box of past possibilities, what's notable is how much Villeneuve gives those echoes room to breathe and to be new.

Mar 8, 2018

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Melissa Anderson

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In the end, for all its pleasures, it's difficult to view Blade Runner 2049 as anything but an elaborate echo of the original, neither true sequel nor reboot, unclear of its own identity.

Oct 30, 2017

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Tim Hayes

Sight & Sound

The film dares to be ambiguous, but ambiguity is a bad fit with the current critical mood that art must be prescriptive rather than reflective.

Oct 17, 2017

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Brittany Patrice Witherspoon

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2049 is able to exist both as a masterful sequel and/or stand-alone film in the universe, which showcases Villeneuve’s massive skill as a storyteller and further validates him as one of the best visionaries of our generation.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 11, 2024

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Justin Micallef

Vague Visages

If the original film’s warmth beneath the cold metropolitan’s structure came from Deckard’s love for Rachel, 2049 extends this ethos to a love and understanding of the self in the greater context of others.

Feb 6, 2024

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Just as in the original, this film is as much about the texture of the world on screen as it is the story of the Replicants 30 years after Deckard first strolled the mean streets of L.A.

Jan 7, 2023

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B T

Good follow up to Blade Runner final cut.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/25/23

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Brian H

One of the few sequels that is as good as the original.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/07/25

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Spicy B

Some continuity with one of the first installments at least (watched only "The Final Cut"). But SO many questions left unanswered as a viewer and so much wasted film time that could've been spent answering them. Instead this was all about CGI and set design display instead of plot or character development. Gosling is beautiful as always and that was the only draw to invest the now wasted rental money and time. Be wary of the tomato and popcorn meters in this case... or you, too, could be led astray!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/02/25

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Crescent V

I read through some other people's thoughts, and I don't know if they were watching the same agonizingly slow movie that i saw. I watched this bc I liked "Her," and by contrast that movie was thought-provoking, interesting, fun. This one also deals with some of the same issues of what is real, what is human, and so on, but it just went on and on. So many choices were made that slowed things down to a snail's pace. By the end I wanted all of them to die, I didn't care who was whose son or daughter. And why does Harrison Ford keep hitting everyone to no good purpose? It was almost slapstick (like a goof on his career?), but hard to see that was intended. Also, Ryan Gosling is an attractive actor who seems to be able to act in some movies, but here, he is "not" acting for long sequences. This adds to the lack of emotional engagement. Anyway, the whole thing was a complete disaster, and how it gets 88% fresh is beyond me. Ugh.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/22/25

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N B

Great follow-up movie. What a cast, all excellent actors. Great story, plot.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

09/01/25

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M B

Excellent movie and sequel but maybe not as impactful on a 2nd viewing.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/24/25

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Synopsis

Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Producer: Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Bud Yorkin, Cynthia Sikes Yorkin
Screenwriter: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Torridon Films, Alcon Entertainment, Bud Yorkin Productions, Scott Free Productions, 16:14 Entertainment
Rating: R (Nudity|Language|Some Sexuality|Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 6, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 26, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $91.5M
Runtime: 2h 44m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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