Three decades after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. In this visually staggering sequel, director Denis Villeneuve reinterrogates the themes of humanity and artificial life introduced in the 1982 sci-fi classic. Blade Runner 2049 is a narcotic spectacle of eerie and pitiless vastness, by turns satirical, tragic, and romantic.