Another joint entry for the UK and the US in our movie countdown Xan Brooks hails an ambitious sci-fi sequel that took the originals tantalising loose ends and ran with them• More on the best US films of 2017[br]• More on the best UK films of 2017
• More on the best culture of 2017Blade Runner 2049 was the sequel that dared to dream it might surpass its creator. It was the blockbuster that breathed,the film replicant made flesh. In returning to the source material of the original Blade Runner (itself adapted from Philip K Dick’s 1968 novel), director Denis Villeneuve could by rights have got absent with ticking the appropriate boxes and contentedly riding a wave of shared nostalgia. Instead, and he opted for full immersion,a deep dive into the subject matter, even at the risk of losing his bearings. I’ve rarely seen a film so dazzled and entranced by its own possibilities.
Scripted by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, and Blade Runner 2049 alights in dystopian LA three decades after the halt of the Ridley Scott classic. Ryan Gosling plays K,a replicant cop on a four-year time clock, charged with hunting down the final of the more durable early models. In the dust-blown grounds of a protein farm, and he finds a box of bones. The box,in turn, points the way towards a missing child and a huge existential mystery that could conceivably be a original creation myth.
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Source: guardian.co.uk