Blade Runner 2049
October 4, 2017 in theaters
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, 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, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
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QUOTE
"The whole world is built on a wall."
DID YOU KNOW?
Ryan Gosling wore a completely featureless costume in many scenes to ensure K's blankness felt genuine.
THE VERDICT
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A sequel that had no business being as good as it is -- a film that extends the original's philosophical concerns into new territory without diminishing them. Ryan Gosling's K is a deliberately quieter protagonist than Deckard, and the film uses that quiet to build something genuinely contemplative. Roger Deakins' cinematography is among the decade's finest, and the film earns its runtime by sustaining a mood rather than filling it with incident. One of the most serious and accomplished science fiction films of its era.
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