Blade Runner 2049

             Blade Runner 2049

Review: I'm sorry, I'm speechless.

  Some movies, they just floor you. Some movies, they're almost 3 hours long, yet you can't tear your eyes away for one damn second, not even to stare at your co-viewers in bewilderment. Some movies are so well baked together, that you can't even tell what floors you the most; soundtrack, cinematography, direction, acting, story, whatever. Some movies, although they flopped at the box office, because sadly most people are just too stupid, impatient, and flat for these type of movies, still become an instant classic, and a movie which you know you will be watching over and over again for years to come. Blade Runner 2049, is that movie. 

  Wow, too enthusiastic you might think? You'd be right. You have to be, to enjoy this type of cinema, the slow, atmospheric movies that just immerse you, and make you stare, and think, and just feast your eyes, all at the same time.

  Let me just begin with the cinematography. God, that cinematography! Deakins finally got his damn oscar, and man, this movie might just be the most beautiful I've ever seen. Every single frame could be used for a wallpaper, every single frame is a painting. The lighting, colours, feels, everything is masterful, and along with the superb music score co-composed by genius Hans Zimmer, the atmosphere in this movie is one of the best I've ever witnessed on screen.

  Villeneuve had officially become one of my favourite directors every, as he'd already made some of my favourite movies, like Prisoners, Arrival and Sicario, and his direction is impeccable, with slow, lingering shots in one scene, and then something entirely different in another. 

  I don't want to talk too much about the story, because you really just want to go in blind, if you've seen the first one, but rest assured, it's superbly written, every now and then a random philosophicall argument thrown in that just makes you stop and go; damn, he's got a point.

  What I also liked was that it didn't go the Detroit: Become Human route, and robots being more human than humans, and it'd actually be nice to have robots everywhere bla bla bla. Instead, it painted a realistic picture of a world where humans didn't learn form their mistakes, which is true all the time, in our current world, and all the replicants somehow try to be human, try to find meaning and belief.

  This cyberpunk hallmark is an instant classic, and like I said, if you actually like a movie that thinks a little, and treats its audience as mature adults, then just go and watch it already.

  I'm totally gonna give this a 10/10.