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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Critics Consensus

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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David Jonathan B

I put off watching this for 8 years. Never expecting it to live up to it's incredible predecessor, which I saw in the cinema on it's original release and a thousand times since, I had avoided 2049 like the plague. As it was finally leaving Amazon Prime I found myself giving it a go. From the beginning I found myself falling into a dimension like no other, with only echoes of the first film's world. It's a rarity these days to see any story, let alone a sequel, that stands on its own for uniqueness and originality, with the additional bonus of taking you on a journey that is hard, if not impossible, to predict, and yet 2049 does exactly that. I'm not one for spoilers and would advise anyone to watch this blind, without watching any trailers or reading any reviews. Enjoy yourself a great movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/24/25

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Johnathon W

Superb sequel to the original that expertly carries over the themes, even if it's a bit too long. The cast is excellent, with Ryan Gosling superb as K, a replicant who works a Blade Runner hunting his own kind. He gets great support from the rest of the cast, especially a returning Harrison Ford as Decker, who brings real gravitas as the former Blade Runner. Behind the camera, director Denis Villeneuve expertly carries over the look and feel of the original film, especially in the plight of replicants wanting to be free over servants. The visuals are second to none, with some fantastic visual effects. The one downside is that the film feels too long but it is hard to find what to cut, since every frame is a work of art. Overall, great sequel to a classic film.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/16/25

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Nathan M

This film was absolutely insane. Visually and in other ways. Great story, great cast. The only flaw is that the story for be got confusing at point, but otherwise, I would give it an 82%

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/14/25

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Raziel C

Love this movie, masterfully shot. One of the best Sci-fi movies of the decade

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/03/25

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Leprechaun K

A solid sequel, which is rare these days. Villeneuve almost never disappoints. Performance by Bautista was also a pleasant surprise.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/25/25

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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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