‘Blade Runner 2049’ Review: Prepare to be blown away by this visual spectacle

Film: Blade Runner 2049

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista.

Director: Denis Villeneuve

What’s it about:

The story of the dystopian world of Blade Runner 2049 picks up 30 years after the original one. The human problem of rogue Replicants (slave humanoids designed and artificially created to do the off-world tasks for mankind) continues to pester. As many of us might have seen in the short films released before the movie, that since 2019 (in the film timeline) a lot of things have changed. But hunting down Replicants is still a priority and Officer K (Ryan Gosling) is one of the best ones they have.

K lives a boring cop life save for his love for Joi (Ana de Armas). But when he stumbles upon a mystery, his world changes upside down. He questions his past, present, and future. While searching for answers, he finds Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), crosses path with the perfect Replicant, Luv (Sylvia Hoeks), made by Niander Wallace (Jared Leto). What unfolds then is the story of Blade Runner 2049.

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