Blade Runner 2049 - Sequel to the 1982 Cult Classic

I finally got the chance to see this movie after it premiered in Indonesia for more than 3 days. I was travelling to my mother's hometown for the past 4 days and my wife was feeling tired so she did not accompany me this time. I went to see this at Epicentrum XXI to enjoy the Dolby Atmos sound system but the time was very tight as it played at 6.25PM. Lucky for me I could use different route and despite having further distance, I was able to reach the location much earlier than if I use the usual way. Anyway, let us get on with the film.

Brief Story Line

The movie was told in the year 2049, 30 years from the time of this film's predecessor Blade Runner. We were introduced to our main character, a Blade Runner simply referred to as "K" (Ryan Gosling - The Notebook, The Big Short etc) who was also a bio engineered human called Replicant. It was an uncommon thing as the older Replicants used to be hunted down by Blade Runner. K reported to his superior Lt Joshi aka Madam (Robin Wright - Forrest Gump, House of Cards TV series, Wonder Woman etc). K did not have any friends and only accompanied by a hologram with AI referred to as Joi (Ana de Armas - Overdrive) whom he seemed to fell in love with.

Blade Runner 1982 Uncut Version and A Cult Classic

I knew that there would be a sequel of this movie to premiere in Indonesian theaters on Friday, but as I have completely forgotten the story, I thought it would better for me to see this again to refresh my memory. So I looked around in the internet and managed to find it online and saw this without hesitation. Now what was the movie all about? Let us find out more.

Brief Story Line

The story was told in the year 2019 where a group of humans created through bio engineering and called "The Replicants" were sent to do space colonization. The Replicants were created by Tyrell corporation led by Dr. Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel - The Shining etc). When four of the Replicants led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer - Blind Fury, Batman Begins etc) fled from one of the colony to earth, a retired cop specializing in capturing Replicants and referred to as Blade Runner named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford - no intro necessary) was assigned to recapture those four.

Alien: Covenant - Another Sci Fi Horror Thriller Movie in Alien Franchise

It was a rather odd week of movie premieres in Indonesia this time, when 2 major movies premiered back to back on Tuesday and Wednesday. I was not able to see the movie King Arthur on Tuesday due to some work matters and would only do it today on public holiday. So yesterday we watched this movie which would only play in US cinemas sometime next week. As usual, we saw it in Lotte Avenue at 7.15 PM which was quite near my office. Now how was this 6th movie in Alien franchise fare? Let us move on to the juicy stuff.

Brief Story Line

The story was set around 10 years after the events of Prometheus, with the focus of the colonization space ship named Covenant which was travelling to the new habitable planet called Origae 6. Inside the space ship, there were 15 crews and some 2000 colonists who were put on cryogenics to sleep, due to the many years of travel to the intended location. Including in the crew was the very humanlike android named Walter (Michael Fassbender - X-Men first class trilogy, Assassin's Creed etc) who was also looking after the overall condition of the ship.