Majority of the reviews I have read, have been outstanding. This one, is just insulting and stupid:
http://nypost.com/2017/10/04/youll-love-the-new-blade-runner-unless-youre-a-woman/
Such a stupid review , why can't we just judge movies on their merit , rather than making everything thing about diversity and feminism?!:darn kids
Well , at the least I would have thought she would have pointed out that its a woman who gets to dispense the bulk of violence and suffering in this story in a role that "traditionally" would have been given to a man ( I dread to imagine what may have been said had that actually been done so). But I guess if you want to have a go at the movie its a simple angle to take.
The problem was that nearly all the characters were "unlikeable" in that they were rendered less than human by either their origin or circumstance or both . That was the major point of the movie I felt, the inhumanly manufactured were struggling to attain their humanity ,the humans left on Earth had lost or surrendered most of theirs. And under those conditions I think the choices of the roles given were a reasonable extension of what technology is enabling us to develop anyway ,much like the original.
Certainly the slow pace of the first two thirds of the film very much allowed you to explore those ideas, and I did like how much misinformation and misdirection early on allowed a few ambiguities to survive to the end of the story. But the jump to the climax felt oddly miss paced though, though maybe I missed how K tracked Deckard to the final showdown ( I may have been somewhat distracted by the fifty foot digitally enhanced nude appearance of his ex girlfriend).
And there were a small number of plot stupidities I disliked , like having tripwires in a building with a dog is not to be recommended, an immune compromised child is put in an orphanage ,bee hives thriving where there were no flowers ?????? The rest of the story seemed very straight forward though and didn't seem to have as many contradictions within it like the original ( apart from the smartly kept main question of course).
But those were small niggles in comparison to the impact the entire movie had on you. It was a " movie experience" in every sense of the word , but its one I'd prefer to watch on Blu-ray again. There were a few quiet, thoughtful moments in it in which were difficult to appreciate above the loud grazing noises in the audience.
I understand if some people don't like the soundtrack. I enjoyed the combination of the musical score with powerful sound effects , much like they did in "Arrival", though it was loud enough at points to feel in your body, and I don't know if its a coincidence but I have a slight numbness in the ears today. I've been to quieter concerts!!!
Just one more question. Did anyone catch what was meant when Luv says "Now I am the last one" at the end?
PS DId anyone think this felt very like some of the episodes in the Ghost in the Shell series?