![]() He approaches his job with grim dutifulness. His face is a blank slate with phantom thoughts scribbled on it. But K isn’t sure of whom, or what, he is. Gosling plays K, an LAPD officer whose job-like that of another, earlier taciturn hero, Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard, who vanished some 30 years ago-is to find and destroy the manmade humans, or replicants, who threaten the stability of this futureworld human society. At certain points, Blade Runner 2049 has the look and feel of a miracle fabric no one has yet invented-it’s like translucent velvet.īut the story-so much story! There’s enough story here for three sequels, and not even the capable shoulders of its star, Ryan Gosling, can carry all of it, though he tries. Only this time with additional strata of despair and wistfulness floating on its surface. ![]() ![]() Shot by Roger Deakins, it echoes the somber, rain-misted Los Angeles that Scott and cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth gave us 35 years ago-including the requisite swooping sky-cars and skyscraper-tall advertising mirages. ![]() ![]() What’s more, Blade Runner 2049, like its predecessor, is a handsome-looking picture. Today, so many action movies have a million endings, or near-endings, each one an echo of the infomercial promise “But wait-there’s more!” There are a million endings in Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s much-loved 1982 future-noir Blade Runner, and some of them are kind of OK. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |