Giving this film a half-star rating is way too generous than it ought of be. It has your usual Nolan-esk, try-hard, intellectual-snobbery film-making sins that a LOT of mainstream films of the 2010s (including the 2000s to an extent) and beyond suffer from. It has uninspired cinematography, bland characters, including Ryan Gosling's wooden-acting charm, boring story that doesn't add anything interesting or worth to the world of Blade Runner, let alone Philip K. Dick's work that Ridley Scott adapted from, and dialogue and scenes so unmemorable, the only thing I remember is the ending to this film, mainly because they used a shitty cover of Vangelis' "Tears in Rain" that Hans Zimmer shoe-horned in (wouldn't be his first and last time he shoe-horned in music, especially since his composing skills is down in the toilet), and that's not saying much. I also hate movies like these where the color-grading is drained or depressing, but with no point or sensible directional to it, other then to make it "dark" or "gritty". It only makes it dull, predictable, and not at all mesmerizing or pleasing to the eye and the mind. Even the most dark and depressing films like Tim Burton's Batman has some life and energy to it compared to this horseshit. At the end of the day, was there any point in making a sequel to Blade Runner? No. Like many other franchises, including Highlander (if anyone remembers that), sometimes backed by corporate-cronies or "artiste" filmmakers who like to smell their own farts, this film is nothing more than a desperate cash-grab and should be forgotten and left under a pile of garbage in a graveyard filled with trash like every other overrated film ever made, especially the Dark Knight and the rest of Christopher Nolan's films. Someone should also take the bottle away from Hans Zimmer before he dies of alcohol-poisoning.
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