Movie Review: Blade Runner 2049 [Emz]

So I saw this film a few weeks ago. Needless to say... I enjoyed it but it wasn't brilliant in my opinion.

Anyway The films stars Ryan Gosling as the Lead character of Agent K Jared Leto as Niander Wallace and Harrison Ford Reprises his role as Rick Deckard from the original 1982 film.

Here is the Synopsis:

Set thirty years after the original film, the story depicts a bioengineered human named K, who discovers the remains of a once-pregnant replicant. To prevent a possible war between replicants and humans, K is secretly tasked with finding the child and destroying all evidence related to it.

Review:

Baring in mind I hadn't seen the original.. It was a bit before my time and I hadn't thought of watching it prior to this film.

There was brief explanation at the beginning explaining what happened after the last film (in the world, not necessarily to the characters)

The original film is set 2 years from now.. give or take.. in 2019. This film is set 30 years later.

We meet Agent K (Ryan Gosling) as he is employed by the LAPD to kill all of the original Replicants that fled prior to the Blackout that occurred after the first film. We find him tracking down the Replicant and eventually killing him.

Of course after this happened he realizes something is amiss and scans the area. He locates a box under the tree and that is where we begin the next part of our story.

So everything that happens after that starts with the discovery of what is in the box. We find out there are skeletal remains in the box of a woman who had given birth. After further examination it turned out the woman was a replicant. 

Throughout the story K keeps finding evidence to what he thinks proves that he was the child that she gave birth to, as his memories matched things that were mentioned and evidence he found. With evidence lost in the Blackout, he struggles to find alot of evidence but he is also led to believe that there were either twins and the girl died and the boy survived or someone altered the data. also the date of birth for the child match a memory of a young child with a toy horse with that same date on it.

He decides to visit a woman by the name of  Dr. Ana Stelline who lives in a bubble as she would be ill if she went outside. She specializes in memories she  for Replicants, who when he shows her the memory she says that someone did live it. He thinks this helps prove his case.

After going to an Orphanage and not finding much information there except the Toy horse from his memories, which he thinks proves that he is the child of Rachel the replicant. 

After having ther horse analysed he heads out to find the child's father is, or as he believes it to be his father he flies out there to meet him. The father of the child turns out the be Deckard and he tells K the whole story of how the child came to be and why he has never seen the child and wasn't able to try to search for his child after the blackout as all the data was lost.

Obviously he was followed by Wallace's replicant Luv and her "men" who kidnap Deckard and leave K for dead. He is saved by a woman named Freysa who informs him that the baby was in fact a girl.

K figures out who the child is and then saves Deckard from Luv and takes Deckard to meet his daughter.

The thing that annoyed me was the very slow pace in which everything happened. You are led to believe that Harrison  Ford is in the Majority of the movie but in actual fact he only turns up just over halfway through the film.. if that. the whole film was really slow at the beginning I understand that it's not always quick to gather evidence but it was just so drawn out.

Then after we get to Harrison ford's appearance in the film everything starts to quicken up... even though it is still rather slow.

I did enjoy the whole idea behind the story but it's not a film I would watch multiple time at the cinema.

Till next time

Emz x

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Movie Review: Kingsman: The Golden Circle [Emz]

So I went to see this film at the weekend. This is the sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service.

This film Stars: Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Jullianne Moore, Channing Tatum, Halle Berry, Mark Strong and Jeff Bridges

Here is the story Synopsis:

With their headquarters destroyed and the world held hostage, members of Kingsman find new allies when they discover a spy organization in the United States known as Statesman. In an adventure that tests their strength and wits, the elite secret agents from both sides of the pond band together to battle a ruthless enemy and save the day, something that's becoming a bit of a habit for Eggsy.

Review:

I really enjoyed this film, there were certain parts which were a bit unexpected for the lack of a better word. I liked the way we meet Statesman but we were also reintroduced to old characters, whether they be good or bad.

There were a few sad moments in the film, which came as a surprise. I was slightly disappointed that a certain character was killed off and that Channing Tatum's Character didn't have an awful lot of screen-time although he had more screen-time than action-time. I did like the way all the Statesman were named after alcoholic drinks (Tequlia, Whiskey, Ginger Ale) like the way the Kingsman are named after King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Galahad, Lancelot, Merlin)

I also enjoyed the completely bonkers scenes from Elton John.

I really feel like watching the first one again now.

Till next time

Emz x

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