This noir film
doesn’t attempt to add another genre into the mix—no action, just a crime drama
similar to the
first Blade Runner movie. This movie isn’t as good as the first
part from 1982, even though the visual style is updated and the movie’s
depth is explored a little more deeply.
One thing, though: just as Harrison Ford delivered a memorable performance as
Deckard in Blade
Runner (1982), Ryan Gosling masters his role as replicant K in
this movie.
Everything in
the movie is blurred across intent and the idea of what’s best for the
populace.
Based on characters from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by
Philip K. Dick, this sequel is set thirty years after the first movie. Things
have changed since then, and the replicants made now are more obedient. The
movie focuses on the new lead, K. K’s job is an ironic one—he’s a Blade Runner.
Unlike the first movie, where Blade Runners were humans hunting renegade
replicants, here the Blade Runner is a replicant hunting renegade replicants.
Things get
chaotic when K completes a mission and uncovers a hidden truth. He discovers a
body under a tree, and the circumstances surrounding that person’s death could
turn the present world upside down.
K is tasked with
making sure the secret never comes out, but he’s not the only one who wants to
keep things hidden. A man named Wallace, who now controls the manufacturing of
replicants, also wants what K found to remain a secret.
The movie itself
may not have the same intense thrill as the
first Blade Runner, but the cinematography and visual effects are
better. Ridley Scott didn’t direct this movie—Denis Villeneuve did, and he did
a great job.
The way he made the movie grow on you and capture your interest is worth
applauding.
He handled the task of making you care about who you should be focusing on and
what the repercussions of their existence were. He did this with careful
precision so that you can’t easily guess how the movie will end.
Even though the
movie was critically applauded for its addition to the Blade Runner tale,
it wasn’t a box office success, just like the first movie. Maybe, later on,
it’ll have a cult following like the first one—who knows?
What I do know is that this is a fine movie to see, just sad that it did not live up to the first.
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