Blade Runner 2049

I have to admit I was excited to hear that Denis Villeneuve (Sicario and Incendies) was the director for the sequel to one of my favorite Si-Fi films of all time, Blade Runner 2049 (2017). I was equally ecstatic to hear that Roger Deakins (most Coen brother films )was the cinematographer. It is also clear that the production team put together a great group for the art direction that seems to provide continuity for many of the same visual motifs from the original film, while creating anew one in Las Vegas based on the visual palette of Michaeangelo Antonioni's Red Desert. The only miscue in my opinion were the giant advertising holograms, which I thought were an unnecessary distraction and addition. The visual look if the first film was what was most important for me, but I was also hoping for a compelling story. I feel that it delivered on that level as well, it is a simple story not unlike it's predecessor and has call backs to the original film that might have put of viewers who were unfamiliar with the source material. All in all, I found it to be a very statisfying sequel-perhaps one of the best of all-time.