"Blade Runner 2049" Wired review

CREATIVITY & DISRUPT

"Blade Runner 2049" 

Wired review

BY JAMES TEMPERTON VIA WIRED UK

Blade Runner 2049 is horribly beautiful, It's just as brilliant as the original. Its beauty is in shadows, blood, neon, desolation and vast, monolithic temples. From start to finish its soundtrack quakes and bellows like a fog horn with an unshakeable 50-a-day habit. There’s the perfect amount of Ryan Gosling speckled with blood looking into unendingly grey middle-distance while the the soundtrack BWAAAAMPS until you’re shaking in your seat and clenching your fists in awe. Blade Runner 2049 is beautifully horrible.

This is a fever dream in which the characters are dwarfed by the dizzying ambition of the set design. Science fiction films so often imagine a prosaic, Americanised future. Denis Villeneuve – borrowing heavily from Ridley Scott’s original – has created a masterpiece. In 1982, when the camera panned through a dystopian Los Angeles, the look and feel of sci-fi films shifted. Thirty-five years later, that same trick is pulled off over and over. READ THIS FULL REVIEW VIA WIRED.CO.UK