Movie review: Ryan Gosling stars in 'Blade Runner 2049,' a stylish, brooding upgrade of the '82 model
by By Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Oct 02, 2017
3 minutes
In 1982, when replicants hadn't yet become a Hollywood business model, "Blade Runner" failed to do what Warner Brothers hoped it would: make a pile of money.
It succeeded, however, in acquiring the reputation of a modern science fiction classic. Director Ridley Scott's 2019-set story (based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?") entered our popular culture sideways, influencing two generations of filmmakers with its menacing dystopian perspective.
Now comes the sequel. The studio is banking on the original's cachet, if not
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