Released in 2017, Blade Runner 2049 is an American science fiction film that was written by Michael Green and Hampton Fancher and directed by Denis Villeneuve. This is a sequel to Blade Runner produced in 1982 and it stars Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling among other prominent actors in supporting roles. Since its release this year, many film experts including Martin J. Stallone have submitted reviews and it has ranked well in the short period since it was released. Here is a comprehensive review of the movie with a focus on its plot as shared by Marty Stallone.
The movie is written focusing on events thought to take place in 2049 where bioengineered humans referred to as replicants have joined the society as slaves and servants. The manufacturer of these replicants is Niander Wallace, who poses as an ambitious and prolific industrialist. He took over the the Tyrell corporation that pioneered the production of replicants. K is a Nexus-9 replicant that was built to obey and serve as a blade runner on behalf of LAPD, and he helps to hunt down older model and rogue replicants. He spends most of his time at home hanging out with his girlfriend Joi. Joi is an artificial intelligence product made by Wallace Corporation.
K has started to investigate a trend that points to a growing freedom among replicants and this leads him to a farm in which he retires a Nexus-8 replicant by the name Sapper Morton, but while doing his duty he comes across a buried box. After some forensic analysis, it is revealed that the box had the remains of a Nexus-7 replicant that passed on due to complications that occurred during an emergency caesarean section. This disturbs K and Lieutenant Joshi because they all along thought replicants could not conceive.
With these revelations, Joshi advises K to destroy the evidence so as to retire the child because he believes that spreading the knowledge replicants are able to get pregnant might spark a war. However, K is disturbed by this directive that suggests he should kill someone born, yet in his understanding the baby has a soul. Therefore, K decides to visit the headquarters of Wallace Corporation and here he finds an experiment replicant that was designed by Dr. Tyrell before he died. While going about investigation, he discovers the romantic ties between him and Rick Deckard, a veteran blade runner.
When Joi returned to the farm to finally destroy the evidence, he sees hidden date that coincides with memories from his childhood that include hiding a wooden horse toy. He then insists that with this information K must be indeed a real person so he searches only to discover that on that date twins were born but despite having identical DNA their sex chromosomes did not match and only the boy was recorded as alive.
With the confusion clouding, K visits Dr. Ana for clarification, but he is informed that it is not legal to program replicants to have real human memories. The doctor also verifies his memory to be real, which points he could be one of the twins that survived. Joshi gives him a test in which he fails, so he is instructed to disappear in 48 hours, and K does exactly that.
On discovery of his disappearance, Luv gets his men to track K and they kidnap Deckard in the process leaving a severely injured K after destroying Joi’s emitter, which murdered her. The Replicant Freedom Movement rescues K and they immediately request him to be their leader. While defending Deckard, K kills Luv and he is left mortally injured. He later dies but this is after he stages the death of Deckard so as to protect him from the replicants and Wallace.