'Blade Runner 2049': Even Sharper Than The Original

"I hope you don't mind me taking a liberty" are the first words spoken in Blade Runner 2049, an unlikely sequel to the oft-revised Ridley Scott sci-fi sleeper that has confounded and divided normals — and been an object of adoration for nerds — for 35 years.

certainly don't mind. This inspired, expansive follow-up, for which screenwriter Hampton Fancher returned, though Scott handed the directorial reins to and 's Denis Villeneuve, is less a generational iteration from its precursor than an evolutionary leap. It chews on the many existential questions introduced in — if our machines can think and feel, are they still machines? How do we know our memories can be trusted? Do androids dream did. Yes, evenwhich came out some 25 years after the original.