Blade Runner 2049

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Blade Runner 2049

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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

03/08/2018

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.

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Melissa Anderson

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10/30/2017

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.

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Tim Hayes

Sight & Sound

10/17/2017

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.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Dec 30

3.5/4

Is Blade Runner 2049 a masterpiece like its predecessor? Definitely not. It's not even a match for 2016's superb Arrival, the previous film from director Denis Villeneuve. Yet on its own terms, it's a dazzling achievement.

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Brittany Patrice Witherspoon

Pop Culture Reviews

07/11/2024

5/5

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.

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Justin Micallef

Vague Visages

02/06/2024

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.

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09/25/2023

Good follow up to Blade Runner final cut.

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Erik .

@Jimmer420 3d

Best visuals i’ve ever seen. Hands down

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Matthias H

@Matthias128 6d

Blade Runner 2049 isn’t about answers, heroes, or twists. It’s about losing the need to be special. Slow, cold, devastatingly beautiful — and quietly radical. Not action sci-fi, but an existential mirror. If you need payoff, you’ll be bored. If you can sit with silence, this film stays with you.

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Jacob W

@Jacob617 Jan 10

Unique film in an era where every movie feels the same, also Ana de armas

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Ivan V

Jan 7

It’s honestly insane that this movie even exists in the form it does: a pure creator’s vision, untouched by studio panic, test-screening scissors, or money people trying to "fix". Blade Runner 2049 is beautifully depressing in the best possible way. A slow, meditative, emotionally heavy sci-fi poem. Every frame is a visual spectacle, every silence intentional. The pacing is bold, confident, and hypnotic. The performances are phenomenal but Ana de Armas is on another level. Her presence is haunting, tender, and tragic in a way that lingers long after the credits roll. This movie is not for people who need everything explained through exposition and characters constantly spelling out what’s going on. It trusts the audience, and that’s part of what makes it special. At its core, it quietly asks what makes us human, what gives life meaning, and whether memory, love, and choice matter more than origin. This isn’t entertainment - it’s cinema. And we’re lucky it was allowed to be made.

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BRENT L

@applesVSoranges10 Jan 6

Phenomenal, gutsy directing. Wonderful use of CGI that creates immersive worlds, not the horrid blurred out backgrounds in films like Sinners and Wicked. Great plot, cast, and ending.

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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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