Saw it yesterday ('props' to Cineworld for actually presenting the film so that it wasn't just silhouettes talking throughout).
Thought it looked gorgeous, albeit in a kind of self-aware we're-making-a-sequel-to-BLADE-RUNNER-so-we-have-to kind of way. Ditto the soundtrack.
Enjoyed it more when it was being its own thing than a sequel but the indifferent narrative makes it hard to care (something Jim's also noted): K's investigating this but it's also that [spoiler]and it relates back to him or does it but obviously not because the movie's taking its time or maybe it does because it's taking its time . . .[/spoiler]
Annoyingly, of all the Judeo-Christian symbolism I clocked I can only remember [spoiler]the miracle birth[/spoiler] (natch), [spoiler]so it's more Joseph and Mary than Adam and Eve (but . . .)[/spoiler].
I'm also undecided if all the callbacks to the original were nuanced or just fan service. Again, I've forgotten pretty much all of them with the exception of the eye close-up and [spoiler]K looking at his hand every so often[/spoiler]. Bizarrely, I had the sudden realization halfway through that Robin Wright reminded me of Rutger Hauer.
There's some nice, underplayed humour [spoiler](an obviously incapable Deckard saying "We could do this all night or we could get a drink" and another scene I've forgotten)[/spoiler] and one misstep [spoiler](Joshi's head-drop on her desk after she's been killed)[/spoiler].
Would also have much preferred [spoiler]the miracle child's birth being a source of hope than an actual incentive to rebel[/spoiler], so overall . . . disappointing.
Thought it looked gorgeous, albeit in a kind of self-aware we're-making-a-sequel-to-BLADE-RUNNER-so-we-have-to kind of way. Ditto the soundtrack.
Enjoyed it more when it was being its own thing than a sequel but the indifferent narrative makes it hard to care (something Jim's also noted): K's investigating this but it's also that [spoiler]and it relates back to him or does it but obviously not because the movie's taking its time or maybe it does because it's taking its time . . .[/spoiler]
Annoyingly, of all the Judeo-Christian symbolism I clocked I can only remember [spoiler]the miracle birth[/spoiler] (natch), [spoiler]so it's more Joseph and Mary than Adam and Eve (but . . .)[/spoiler].
I'm also undecided if all the callbacks to the original were nuanced or just fan service. Again, I've forgotten pretty much all of them with the exception of the eye close-up and [spoiler]K looking at his hand every so often[/spoiler]. Bizarrely, I had the sudden realization halfway through that Robin Wright reminded me of Rutger Hauer.
There's some nice, underplayed humour [spoiler](an obviously incapable Deckard saying "We could do this all night or we could get a drink" and another scene I've forgotten)[/spoiler] and one misstep [spoiler](Joshi's head-drop on her desk after she's been killed)[/spoiler].
Would also have much preferred [spoiler]the miracle child's birth being a source of hope than an actual incentive to rebel[/spoiler], so overall . . . disappointing.