But you are glued to the screen for its visual delight.Ĭinematically, the film is an artist's treat. The plot written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, is convoluted and meanders, sending the audience into a long dark tunnel with no light in sight.

His presence perks up the narrative couple of fold but it isn't as emotionally satisfying as we might have liked it to be. He has been in hiding for the last 30 years. Harrison Ford, in a worn out version, returns as Deckard, the replicant hunter of the first film. They are all perfunctory in their demeanour. He is aptly supported by Ana de Armas as Joi the electronically produced holographic woman who adores K, Jared Leto as Niander Wallace the head of a company that produces the replicants, Sylvia Hoeks as the ruthless woman Luv and Robin Wright as Lieutenant Joshi the head of LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department). He punctuates a purposefully inexpressive performance with minute inflections that makes him a believable character. Ryan Gosling is great as the new Blade Runner.

Killing them might look like a cruel injustice, but it is just a job for K, who soon gets into an emotional and ethical dilemma. Officer K (Ryan Gosling) is one such Blade Runner who tracks down independent-minded replicants who are past their date of planned obsolescence and are committed to survival. But Blade Runners - those who hunt down and 'retire' older replicants, still operate. While the original, themed with - what is life and who has the right to it - set the pace for a lot of dystopian sci-fictions to foray into the noir-flavoured, dangerously decaying Los Angeles, Director Denis Villeneuve's version, set some 30 years after the original, makes it a direct sequel to the first.Īn opening title reminds us that replicants - genetically engineered creatures that are indistinguishable from humans are designed to be safe and servile.

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