So I recently watched Blade Runner 2049 and I'm here to bring you my review. So without further ado...
Officer K (played by Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.
This is an absolutely remarkable film to watch. The art of filmmaking can go one of to ways, it can down the route of you just making a film because it's a film and you just want to make money or it can down the route of making a film because you love the medium so much and you want to show what near perfect filmmaking is and this is exactly hat this film does. Denis Villeneuve is easily one of the top 3 best directors of this generation and has not not made a bad film yet and you can chalk this up right there with films like Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario and Arrival. He does a great job of re-introducing you to the world of Blade Runner and how special it can be and to the unlimited potential it can have. Visually this film is perfect is every single aspect and one of the big components to that is cinematographer Roger Deakins who for years has constantly gotten overlooked at The Academy Awards much like another cinematographer (Emmanuel Lubezki) was a one point before winning 3 in a row and this year is Deakins's year to win. The way he frames every shot just leaves you in awe and it just makes you feel as if you are in the year 2049. Another thing that helps each shot is the lighting within the scene and it really sets the tone of the movie and it really shows just where the film is going next in the sense of it being a high intensity moment or a more relaxed feeling.
The acting in the film is just perfect in every fashion of the word and the standouts are of course Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford and when they are on the screen together they have some really great chemistry and when you see the film and see where it's going then you can see why they have such great chemistry. Both Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch worked on the score togehter for this film and they do a great job of making the sound not to overwhelming at times, but there are moments where the sound just makes certain scenes so much better and they do a nice job of incorporating the score from the original 1982 film that was composed by Vangelis to give us that same dystopian feeling that felt in the first film. While this film is a film that has a lot of technical achievements, the story is a tad weak and that is what you could say about the original film as well, but it almost seems as if you could give the film a pass for a weak story due to the remarkable technical work. The film also has a lot of great metaphors that you probably won't catch in the first viewing and upon multiple viewings of the film, you can truly understand each one of them. Overall if you are a fan of film and by that you are a person who dissects frames, shots, angles, lighting and other key components of filmmaking then this film is for you and it's a film that will be shown in film classes for future generations to see and study, however if you aren't into all of that stuff then this might not be the film for you unless you truly fall in love with the story and the characters. I give Blade Runner 2049 a 9.5 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of Blade Runner 2049, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
Officer K (played by Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.
This is an absolutely remarkable film to watch. The art of filmmaking can go one of to ways, it can down the route of you just making a film because it's a film and you just want to make money or it can down the route of making a film because you love the medium so much and you want to show what near perfect filmmaking is and this is exactly hat this film does. Denis Villeneuve is easily one of the top 3 best directors of this generation and has not not made a bad film yet and you can chalk this up right there with films like Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario and Arrival. He does a great job of re-introducing you to the world of Blade Runner and how special it can be and to the unlimited potential it can have. Visually this film is perfect is every single aspect and one of the big components to that is cinematographer Roger Deakins who for years has constantly gotten overlooked at The Academy Awards much like another cinematographer (Emmanuel Lubezki) was a one point before winning 3 in a row and this year is Deakins's year to win. The way he frames every shot just leaves you in awe and it just makes you feel as if you are in the year 2049. Another thing that helps each shot is the lighting within the scene and it really sets the tone of the movie and it really shows just where the film is going next in the sense of it being a high intensity moment or a more relaxed feeling.
The acting in the film is just perfect in every fashion of the word and the standouts are of course Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford and when they are on the screen together they have some really great chemistry and when you see the film and see where it's going then you can see why they have such great chemistry. Both Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch worked on the score togehter for this film and they do a great job of making the sound not to overwhelming at times, but there are moments where the sound just makes certain scenes so much better and they do a nice job of incorporating the score from the original 1982 film that was composed by Vangelis to give us that same dystopian feeling that felt in the first film. While this film is a film that has a lot of technical achievements, the story is a tad weak and that is what you could say about the original film as well, but it almost seems as if you could give the film a pass for a weak story due to the remarkable technical work. The film also has a lot of great metaphors that you probably won't catch in the first viewing and upon multiple viewings of the film, you can truly understand each one of them. Overall if you are a fan of film and by that you are a person who dissects frames, shots, angles, lighting and other key components of filmmaking then this film is for you and it's a film that will be shown in film classes for future generations to see and study, however if you aren't into all of that stuff then this might not be the film for you unless you truly fall in love with the story and the characters. I give Blade Runner 2049 a 9.5 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of Blade Runner 2049, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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