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Blade Runner 2049
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- 2017
- Denis Villeneuve
- 157 mins
- 15
Summary
Futuristic sci-fi thriller starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling. Los Angeles blade runner Officer K uncovers a shocking secret that puts him on the trail of Rick Deckard, who has been missing for 30 years. Meanwhile, corporate magnate Niander Wallace seeks the truth about so-called replicant reproduction in order to further his plans for interstellar colonisation.
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
Tom Folley
Well worth the 35-year wait, director Denis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi thriller is both a fan-pleaser and an artistic achievement in its own right. Ryan Gosling plays android LAPD detective Officer K, who is sent to investigate the existence of a replicant child. K discovers a link to Officer Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who disappeared three decades before, and soon finds that the case is of interest to powerful, dangerous people. Both the original Blade Runner and Villeneuve's earlier film Arrival ponder what it is that makes us human, and Villeneuve effectively continues the theme here. Gosling has a wonderful, quiet curiosity as K, and Ford makes a crowd-pleasing return to one of his best roles. Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins's bleak vistas deserve equal praise, his vision of a future ravaged Earth proving both majestic and terrifying. Villeneuve, meanwhile, has gone on to prove his mastery of the genre in his awesome take on another cult story, Frank Herbert's Dune.
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rolenameRick DeckardHarrison FordOfficer KRyan GoslingNiander WallaceJared LetoLuvSylvia HoeksJoiAna de ArmasLt JoshiRobin WrightSapper MortonDave BautistaMarietteMackenzie DavisDr Ana StellineCarla JuriMister CottonLennie JamesDoc BadgerBarkhad AbdiCocoDavid DastmalchianGaffEdward James Olmos
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rolenameDirectorDenis Villeneuve
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Theatrical distributor
Sony
Released on
2017-10-05
Languages
English
Guidance
Violence, swearing, nudity
Available on
DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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