Oh yeah, I saw this a few weeks ago. What it reminds me of more than anything else is the Matrix 2, where it recaptures the iconic look and feel of a classic movie, but doesn’t do anything interesting with it. It takes all the themes that the original movie was dealing with, deals with them again in basically the same way only with less subtlety, and stirs in a messianic mysticism subplot because why not. (And also notably not updating the misogyny, which stands out to such a degree that I keep wondering if they’re doing something intentional with it, but this is a movie that is happy to monologue all of its themes right out into the open, so I doubt it.)

Really, the main thing that hampered it was its insistence on being a direct linear sequel to the original Blade Runner, instead of another story set in the Bladerunniverse that was doing something else. Because, like, the original already did everything that needed doing in its milieu, trying to add onto that is inessential and pointless, and nothing in the three plodding hours that the movie runs for ever goes beyond that.

Not recommended.