On Amazon you can watch a sequel that fans have had to wait 35 years for. The sequel to the sci-fi classic continues the legacy with dignity
Director Denis Villeneuve has just scored a big hit with Dune: Part Two. Even before he took on the material about the desert planet Arrakis, he breathed new life into another sci-fi world. With Blade Runner 2049, not only did Harrison Ford return as Deckard, but the world was also developed further in a meaningful way. In the second part, Ryan Gosling took the helm as police officer K and investigates a case that could shake society to its very foundations.
Blade Runner 2049 with Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford is now available as a flat-rate movie on Amazon Prime Video
Replicants and secrets – that’s what the sci-fi sequel Blade Runner 2049 is about
As a replicant hunter, it is Officer K’s (Gosling) job to track down the artificial people with an unlimited lifespan and send them into “retirement”, i.e. kill them. These are the last representatives of an almost extinct species and all that is left of the former replicant problems.
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A box containing the bones of a woman is found at a protein farmer that K kills. The mystery surrounding this woman leads the replicant hunter to his lost ex-colleague Deckard (Ford). But Niander Wallace (Jared Leto), the head of the Tyrell Corporation, also becomes aware of the find and wants to take advantage of the secret.
You can now stream Blade Runner 2049 on Amazon Prime
Blade Runner 2049 is what other sequels fail to achieve – a worthy sequel
Lately, there have been more delayed sequels to iconic films. Most turned out to be big flops like Matrix Resurrections, others thrive almost exclusively on the retro cult, like Star Wars Episode VII. Only a few sequels, released decades later, manage to continue the stories of the original in a meaningful way.
In the case of Blade Runner 2049, however, this has been achieved brilliantly. The world has evolved credibly and yet the film tells its own story. The sequel has enough of a connection to the original without getting lost in it. And with Ryan Gosling, we get an interesting character in an exciting plot.
