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Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 epic neo-noir science-fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green. It is a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 film, Blade Runner. The film stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, with Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto in supporting roles.

Plot
The film opens with a textbook that syas:

""Replicants are bioengineered humans, designed by Tyrell Corporation for use off-world. Their enhanced strength made them ideal slave labor After a series of violent rebellions, their manufacture became prohibited and Tyrell Corp went bankrupt The collapse of ecosystems in the mid-2020s led to the rise of industrialist Niander Wallace, whose mastery of synthetic farming averted famine Wallace acquired the remains of Tyrell Corp and created a new line of replicants who obey Many older model replicants – Nexus-8s with open-ended lifespans – survived. They are hunted down and 'retired' Those that hunt them still go by the name... Blade Runner""

- The opening text

In 2049 California, thirty years after the events of the first film, A mysterious detective officer named K, who is a Nexus-9 replicant model, works as a Blade Runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, opens his eyes and he arrives at a protein farm somewhere in California, and he goes on a fight and kills Sapper Morton and he recovers his eye, and a flower outside of his farm, and he goes back to the city of Los Angeles' Police Department (LAPD). Inside, K goes to a standard 'baseline test' for Replicants and passes it. He then goes home to his apartment in a seedy area of town. He spends his time at home with a holographic woman named Joi (Ana de Armas), a futuristic form of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and has apparently formed a deep bond with her, despite the fact that they cannot physically interact. For this reason, he has bought her a mobile hologram projector which allows him to free her program from its home-based console. He can now take Joi outside on the top of his apartment building in the pouring rain, and it also allows her program to touch objects. Joi is very happy, but K is called back to the station before they can experiment with Joi's new capabilities any further.

In downtown Los Angeles, a group of Forensics team has discovered that the chest contains a human skeleton and a lock of hair, They belong to a female who most likely had complications during childbirth 30 years before. Superficial cuts in the bones suggest an emergency Cesarean section as the cause of death. Officer K locates a serial number engraved on one of the woman's bones, indicating that the skeleton wasn't from a human, but a Replicant female.

Bad Qualties

 * 1) Many people find the movie way too long. Even Ridley Scott, the director of the original film, feels that had he directed this sequel, he would have made it shorter.

Box office
The movie grossed over $260 million against a budget of $150–185 million. In the U.S. and Canada, the movie is a box office dissapointment; Ridley Scott believed that the film's underperformance at the box office was because of its nearly 3-hour runtime.

Critical response
Blade Runner 2049 was acclaimed by critics audiences, and fans of the first film for its performances, direction, cinematography, musical score, production design, visual effects, and faithfulness to the original film, and was considered by many critics to be among the best films of 2017, although its near-three hour runtime is criticism. Critically, the movie has a Fresh rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a critical consensus reads, "Visually stunning and narratively satisfying, Blade Runner 2049 deepens and expands its predecessor's story while standing as an impressive filmmaking achievement in its own right.", and some critics considered it to be an improvement from the first film.

Accolades
The movie won two categories in both the Academy Awards, the British Academy Film Awards, and the Satellite Awards: Best Cinematography for Roger Deakins, and Best Visual Effects, for John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover.

Trivia

 * This was the first Academy Award win for Roger Deakins, after his previous 13 nominations at the time, with him winning his second Academy Award for 1917.