'Blade Runner 2049' is a 'visual feast' according to critics — here's what they're saying about the 'mind-blowing' sequel

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"Blade Runner 2049," the sequel 35 years in the making, will finally hit theaters October 6.

According to most critics, Denis Villeneuve's revamped addition to Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" is a beautiful masterpiece, and worthy of your two hours and forty-four minutes (the length of the film). One critic even said that Villeneuve has elevated "mainstream moviemaking to high art."

The film has already received an 87% score on Metacritic, and despite a few critics who feel that nothing can compare to the original "Blade Runner," most agree that "2049" is a "visual feast" that you don't want to miss.

Here's what critics are saying about "Blade Runner 2049":

"Blade Runner 2049" offers audiences a "mesmerizing mindbender" of a film.

"For 'Blade Runner' junkies like myself, who've mainlined five different versions of Ridley Scott's now iconic sci-fi film noir – from the release print to the Director's Cut and the Final Cut (the last two minus that voiceover Scott and Ford hated) – every minute of this mesmerizing mindbender is a visual feast to gorge on."

- Rolling Stone, Peter Travers

Villeneuve delivers a "visually breathtaking" film.

"Villeneuve earns every second of that running time, delivering a visually breathtaking, long-fuse action movie whose unconventional thrills could be described as many things — from tantalizing to tedious — but never 'artificially intelligent.'"

- Variety, Peter Debruge

"Blade Runner 2049" is "mind-blowing."

"That cyberpunk vision remains just as alluring 35 years later, and 'Blade Runner 2049' could have merely roamed those streets with the same chiaroscuro imagery and delivered a satisfying taste of the same familiar drug. Instead, director Denis Villeneuve goes beyond the call of duty, with a lush, often mind-blowing refurbishing of the original sci-fi aesthetic that delves into its complex epistemological themes just as much as it resurrects an enduring spectacle."

- IndieWire, Eric Kohn

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