If you are a fan of the original Bladerunner, chances are that you would relish the current release even better. Get ready for a visual spectacle for Bladerunner is nothing short of a creamy Sci-FI action flick which also has the very own Harrison Ford creeping his way into this part with a surprisingly entertaining role. Lots have changed in the real world since the 1982 release of the original Blade Runner. Come 2049, a new era has emerged: Blade Runnerremains at the peak of cinematic sci-fi and the makers have taken the no-nonsense approach in making it a raw entertaining spectacle.
If the original adopted the night approach, the reboot director Denis, who took Sicario and prisoners has been way too careful in ensuring that the original touch does not get spoiled and the 2049 series is a movie on its own uniqueness. Set thirty years after the original film, the story depicts a bioengineered human named Constant K, who discovers the remains of a once-pregnant replicant. To prevent a possible war between replicants and humans, K is secretly tasked with finding the child and destroying all evidence related to it, leading him to discover that the child bears a connection to missing blade runner Rick Deckard.The film opens with K (Ryan) hunting down targets or rather older replicants and finishing them off in order to avert a war. He is one LAPDâÂÂs most reputed police and for some reason has a skinny tag. On one such routine retiring assignment, he discovers something that might shutter the future of the world.
The Los Angeles of "Blade Runner 2049" is one that alternates between pollution, torrential rain and an ash like precipitation that is passed away as snow. The city is surrounded by mountains of trash, and farther out beyond that, a radioactive wasteland.Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) is the embodiment of a cult classic. It didn't set the box office on fire at first but went on to become a trendsetter, now 2049 is perhaps a salutation to ScottâÂÂs invention, innovated in every other way. The original Blade Runner was set in the year 2019, which means we still have two years to catch up with this dystopian scenario. The sequel moves us 30 years into the future, to a world in which it's hard to differentiate degeneration from progress. The big change is that a certain Wallace Corporation has managed to stabilize food production, and create a new kind of replicant, guaranteed to comply with humanity's instructions.
Blade Runner 2049's actresses have their own task cut out. Robin Wright as the cold hearted commander in chief is fitting. Sylvia Hoeks is Wallace's sidekick Luv, an intimidating and striking force of nature whenever she's on the screen. Ana de Armas' character, a companion to K, triggers some of the movie's most thought-provoking facts, an advanced android that crosses the robot era with humane touch, she strives to be better for K but somehow her architecture is designed to self-realize her limitations, which is exactly the theme behind Blade Runner as it fights between human and their creation. The expansive story fills the screen with breathtaking frames from the cinematographer, the narration is too slow at many places, it is almost the director wants us to get into the scene, that exact moment to realise the tension no matter how long it takes. This was the master stroke behind "The Arrival" success and he has almost but pulled off this stunt.
Verdict : If you have the patience to get into thickness of Denis's ambience and Ryan's gritty performance, Bladerunner 2049 surely is the film to watch.
