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It doesn't just remind you of what you loved about Scott's weird but unshakable hybrid of film noir and cyberpunk-before-it-had-a-name, or even require you to have seen it, necessarily. It takes the grubby, thoughtful world-building and hyperkinetic imagery of the 1982 landmark and gives it, at long last, a story to match. 2049 runs 45 minutes longer than its precursor, but feels shorter. It's the best philosophical gumshoe movie since Memento and the best dystopian future flick since Children of Men. It's an astonishing achievement. And like Dunkirk, it's worth the tariff you'll pay to experience it on the largest, sharpest screen you can find.
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Unlike Scott's own thudding Alien addenda Prometheus and Covenant (with which 2049 shares a screenwriter in Michael Green), this new film actually deepens the enchantment of the old one instead of breaking the spell. There are several distinct references to Macbeth, and a recurring music cue from Peter and the Wolf. Beyond that, I'm severely restrained in my ability to tell you very much, as the publicity team read to the critics at the screening I attended an appeal from Villeneuve: an exhaustive list of specific characters and plot developments he has kindly asked that we not discuss. I'm complying because he has made a superb movie, one that really is stocked with revelations and counterrevelations worth preserving intact.
I'll just swallow the indications that they're going to prove out Deckard as a replicant.
The whole "Is Deckard a replicant or not?" is such a boring question, really. Certainly at the beginning of Blade Runner, Deckard (whether he was born or assembled) has less feeling in him than my old Radio Shack TRS-80 computer did. And by the end of the movie, not only has he changed in that regard, but it's made abundantly clear that at least the Nexus Six replicants (if not all their earlier predecessors) are people. Manufactured people, yes, but people none the less. (The born humans of course can't acknowledge that and still justify keeping the Nexus Six replicants as slaves, so I don't expect any improvement in their condition; history shows all too well that at least on a societal level self-interest usually trumps ethics, unfortunately.)
I wonder if we'll find out what happened to Rachael and Gaff?
The whole "Is Deckard a replicant or not?" is such a boring question, really. Certainly at the beginning of Blade Runner, Deckard (whether he was born or assembled) has less feeling in him than my old Radio Shack TRS-80 computer did. And by the end of the movie, not only has he changed in that regard, but it's made abundantly clear that at least the Nexus Six replicants (if not all their earlier predecessors) are people. Manufactured people, yes, but people none the less. (The born humans of course can't acknowledge that and still justify keeping the Nexus Six replicants as slaves, so I don't expect any improvement in their condition; history shows all too well that at least on a societal level self-interest usually trumps ethics, unfortunately.)
I wonder if we'll find out what happened to Rachael and Gaff?
Well, we already know that the new story starts beyond the question of Deckard (based on the short films that have already been released). There are a whole bunch of replicants pretty much loose in the wild without records to identify them--which is by the replicants' plan (Gaff appears in one of the shorts set only a couple of years after the first movie).
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Early reviews are off the charts. 2049 is sitting at 96% on Rotten currently. Very good news!
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