[REVIEW] Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

I am demanding myself as a fan of Dennis Villeneuve after Sicario (2015) and let alone Arrival (2016). So I immediately excited really knowing that he will act as a director in the sequel to Blade Runner, let alone this project is still under "guidance" the sci-fi teacher Ridley Scott who worked on his first film. Not to mention the complete names: actor Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Jared Leto, cinematographer Roger Deakins, and earlier: music composer Johann Johannson (before Hans Zimmer replaced). Hype Blade Runner 2049 I have felt from the beginning of the publication, to the intention of pol I go to the cinema in the first airing! With a passionate spirit I also go home directly make his review.

There is a heavy burden for Villeneuve to work on a sequel to a movie that has been considered cult. Blade Runner 2049 should be able to offer something innovative from its predecessor, but should not lose the original movie spirit. Fortunately, in the end the vision of Villeneuve can lead Blade Runner 2049 as a tribute or a proper tribute to the original film. Almost all the elements remind me of the original version that worked on Ridley Scott, certainly in a more magnificent modern version. The visuals, the scoring music, the pace of the film, the storyline (and one of his screenwriters is Hampton Fancher who once worked on Blade Runner), his philosophical content (with his bible-reference), his dialogue, even fantasy its technology .... watching 2049 feels like a nice nostalgia for its hard-core fans.

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But let me tell you first, that regardless of the futuristic nuance that looks promising as a blockbuster movie, I feel 2049 Blade Runner is still. I am suudzon ABG-ABG fan Ryan Gosling heavy who watch this movie I think I would not like the movie. Including you hey Roland Emerich and Michael Bay fans! 2049 is a neo-noir film science-fiction genre. The movie moves slowly, its duration is even 2 hours 45 minutes, the story is bleak and depressive, the dialogue is heavy ... clearly Blade Runner 2049 is segmented. People who come to the cinema hoping to watch the world of science-fiction a la Star Wars seem to have to swallow the disappointment when Blade Runner 2049 focuses more on the detective scenes, the quiet mood (please Wallace's office does not have employees!), And the drama philosophical about what-make-a-human-human? Especially if you have not watched the original version, I doubt if you can really understand the purpose of this movie. Thank goodness I've learned from the mistakes, so I went into the theater with a mental preparation ~ which made me so enjoy the movie with a high level of focus.

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The main strength of Blade Runner 2049 is clearly in its futuristic visuals. Setting together a dystopian universe in 2049 (30 years after setting the story of the original movie), the future earth in this movie is not a fun world. In Blade Runner, the design of the set and its location seem to be inspired from the bustling city of Tokyo and New York at night, but in a dark, bustling, glittering version with neon-punk lights and billboards commercial, noisy, multicultural, does not offer warmth. 2049 was able to bring the same universe, turning Los Angeles into a snowy cyber-punk world in amazingly beautiful pictures that made me ngowoh throughout the movie. In addition, 2049 drove us out of the unexplored city of his oriental film, San Diego and Las Vegas portrayed as a ruined, messy and abandoned city. Roger Deakins as a cinematographer - along with his special effects and production design supporters, bringing a realistic world landscape of the future to cinema screens - I have nothing to admire.