Overview
This sequel to Ridley Scott's landmark 1982 science-fiction film picks up the story 30 years later, giving viewers another detailed look at a future in which humanity live in polluted, overcrowded cities and rely on androids known as "replicants" for slave labor. In 2049 Los Angeles, K (Ryan Gosling) works as a "blade runner," a specialized law-enforcement agent dedicated to tracking down and killing rogue replicants. But when he uncovers a shocking conspiracy involving the robot laborers, he searches for the one person who might have answers: a former blade runner named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who vanished decades earlier. Directed by Denis Villeneuve (ARRIVAL, SICARIO). Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto co-star.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Denis Villeneuve - Director
Harrison Ford
Ryan Gosling
Ana de Armas
Jared Leto
Robin Wright
Details
- Format: 4K Blu-ray (4K Mastering, with Blu-Ray, Ultraviolet Digital Copy, Dubbed, AC-3)
- Run Time: 163
- UPC: 883929571857
- Genre: HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY
- Rating: R
- Release Date: January 2018
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Denis Villeneuve and his team are remarkably ambitious....They have made one of the most deeply philosophical and challenging sci-fi films of all time, a movie that never holds your hand as it spirals the viewer through its gorgeous funhouse of the human soul." - 10/02/2017 RogerEbert.com
"[T]he great cinematographer Roger Deakins, working with maybe his fullest palette of colors and textures, supplies one staggeringly unforgettable image after another..." -- Grade: B+ - 09/30/2017 A.V. Club
"From the opening aerial shots of a thoroughly denatured agricultural landscape and the lethal confrontation that follows, we know we are in the presence of a masterly visual tactician and a shrewd storyteller." - 10/02/2017 New York Times
"Gosling is a talented but tightly controlled actor....This makes him the perfect choice to play a replicant that just might be human." - 10/02/2017 Chicago Sun-Times
"[T]he new film owes more to slow-cinema maestro Andrei Tarkovsky than it does to Scott’s revolutionary cyberpunk sensibility....[A] visually breathtaking, long-fuse action movie..." - 09/29/2017 Variety
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "THE BLADE RUNNER mythos could not be in better hands....And camera genius Roger Deakins creates a look that both salutes and moves on from the original, forging its own dazzling identity." - 09/30/2017 Rolling Stone
5 stars out of 5 -- "The real miracle is that Villeneuve and co. have crafted a successor to Ridley Scott’s genre-transcending masterpiece that exceeds even the loftiest expectations." - 09/28/2017 Total Film
5 stars out of 5 -- "Visually immaculate, swirling with themes as heart-rending as they are mind-twisting, 2049 is, without doubt, a good year. And one of 2017’s best." - 10/02/2017 Empire
"[A] superb new sequel by Denis Villeneuve...with a smart, grimly lyrical script; bleakly beautiful cinematography; and an even deeper dive into questions of the soul." - 10/01/2017 Washington Post
"2049 reaches for, and finds, something remarkable: the elevation of mainstream moviemaking to high art." -- Grade: A- - 09/29/2017 Entertainment Weekly
5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] visually staggering film....BLADE RUNNER 2049 is a narcotic spectacle of eerie and pitiless vastness, by turns satirical, tragic and romantic." - 09/29/2017 The Guardian
"Villeneuve and company have cast a powerful and disturbing visual spell, thrusting us into a world compelling enough to get lost in." - 10/05/2017 Los Angeles Times
"2049 took the noir storytelling and neon futuristic facade of the 1982 original and crafted an engrossing, sprawling epic that opened up the franchise’s mythology..." - 12/26/2017 USA Today
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