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This is a stunning film.

A sequel to 1982's Ridley Scott film, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049 is directed by Denis Villeneuve and it is really good. It is almost three hours long but you don't notice the time and while there is a slow burn, nothing feels extraneous. Ryan Gosling is Detective K, a new generation of blade runners, tasked with retiring replicants. He retires one in the opening which kickstarts him onto an extraordinary journey. Any real description beyond that would spoil the story.

So, there is stuff that doesn't work:

the future seems to be very white. There were very few people of colour in this film, contrary to the original Blade Runner's world building. It bugged me a little bit.

Outside of that,

this film is beautifully shot and it was just beautiful to look at. Gosling is great as our conflicted protagonist, Ana de Armos, Mackenzie Davis and Sylvia Hoeks were awesome in their respective roles (keeping this spoiler free). Harrison Ford is back as Deckard from the original film and his character is deepened. Ford's late career revisiting of his iconic characters, Indiana Jones notwithstanding, has seen Ford seem more alive and passionate in his acting than anything in years. Robin Wright is sort of wasted here, Jared Leto needs to be wasted here in a small role (I'm not a fan and would have preferred a different actor in his role).

This is great though. Go see it.