Blade Runner 2049
Came out; 2017
Time; 2 hour 44 Minutes
Watched: Amazon
Rated: R for violence, some sexuality, nudity and language
IMDB Rating; 8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 88%
Popcorn Meter 88%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard
Ryan Gosling as K
Ana de Armas as Joi
Dave Bautista as Sapper Morton
Robin Wright as Lieutenant Joshi
Mark Arnold as Interviewer
Sylvia Hoeks as Luv
Edward James Olmost as Gaff
Jared Leto as Niander Wallace
Story Line;
Thirty years after the events of Blade Runner (1982), a new Blade Runner, L.A.P.D. Officer "K" (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former L.A.P.D. Blade Runner, who has been missing for thirty years
Thoughts:
I'm not sure how this got such high ratings as I found the middle to be extremely slow and boring. Maybe if I would have watched the original Blade Runner right before this it would have been better, I really don't know
I like Ryan Gosling but this wasn't his best movie.
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
30
years after the events of Blade Runner, in 2049, replicates-bio
engineered humans-remain employed as slave labor. The Los Angeles
Police Department employs a Nexus-9 replicate named K (short for
serial number, KD6-3.7) as a "blade runner," an officer who
hunts and "retires" (kills) rogue replicate models.
After
Sapper Morton retires, K discovers a box at Morton's farm, buried
beneath a tree. A female replicate who passed away during a Cesarean
section was buried there. This proves what was previously believed to
be impossible-that replicates could reproduce biologically. Lt.
Joshi, K's superior, orders K to retire the replicate child because
she believes this information could spark a conflict between humans
and replicates.
K goes to the Wallace Corporation, which made
replicates and was the Tyrell Corporation's successor. Rachael, an
experimental Nexus 7 replicate, is identified as the deceased female
by DNA archives. Rachael's romantic relationships with former Blade
Runner Rick Deckard are revealed to K. In order to increase
interstellar colonization, CEO Niander Wallace is seeking the
replication secret. To keep an eye on K, he dispatches Luv, his
replicate enforcer.
K recognizes the date 6.10.21 carved into
the tree trunk at Morton's farm because it reminds him of a wooden
toy horse from his early years. Joi, K's holographic A.I. girlfriend,
thinks this proves that K was born, not made, because replicate
memories are fake. K finds that only the boy is listed as alive in
the LAPD records, despite the fact that two children born on that
date have identical DNA except for the sex chromosome. K also finds
that the child was taken to an orphanage, but while investigating the
orphanage, he finds out that records from that year are missing. K
remembers hiding the toy horse in the furnace, and he finds it there
after recognizing the orphanage from his memories. K comes to the
conclusion that he is Rachael's son after replica memory designer Dr.
Ana Stelline verifies that his recollection of the orphanage is real.
K is then classified as a rogue after failing a baseline test. Joshi
gives him 48 hours to pass the test or he will be "retired"
after he suggests to her that he killed the replicate child.
In
order to have sex with K, Joi uses replicate prostitute Mariette as a
surrogate. The next morning, Mariette attaches a tracker to K's
jacket before a resentful Joi sends her away. K discovers the remains
of a radioactive Las Vegas after analyzing the toy horse. He
discovers Deckard there, who tells him that he is Rachael's child's
father and that he jumbled the birth certificates to conceal the
identity of their child. The child was left in the care of the
Replicant Freedom Movement by Deckard. After killing Joshi, Luv
follows K to Las Vegas. She destroys Joi, kidnaps Deckard, and
abandons a weak K. K is rescued by the replicate freedom movement
using Mariette's tracker. K concludes that Stelline is Rachael's
daughter and that the toy horse memory belongs to her after their
leader, Freysa, tells him that Rachael had a girl child. Freysa begs
K to murder Deckard because she fears he might hand over Stelline or
the freedom movement to Wallace.
Luv brings Deckard to meet
Wallace, who offers Deckard a replica Rachael in return for details
regarding the location of his child. When he declines, Luv murders
the duplicate. K steps in as Luv takes Deckard to be tortured
Off-World. He battles Luv until he drowns her, but he suffers serious
injuries in the process.
K takes Deckard to Stelline's office
and gives him her toy horse after staging Deckard's death to shield
him from Wallace and the replicate freedom movement. Deckard enters
the building and first sees his daughter with tears in his eyes as K
passes away on the steps while gazing up at the snow falling.
Sources
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