Villeneuve's sequel is everything it should be, and that includes Easter egg-filled and packed with call-backs to the original and the novel which inspired it.

Remember way back in olden times - say, four or five days ago - when "Blade Runner 2049" was a well-reviewed, can't-miss hit that was going to shatter "Gravity"'s record for October debuts ($55.8 million) and was certain to net as much as $60 million in its first three days? But she also wants them to be free.

In the first scene of the original Blade Runner, a suspected replicant is given the Voight-Kampff test, in which a subject's eye is studied as they are asked questions created to elicit emotional responses. While I was transfixed by the film's visual prowess, score, fascinating plot and fidelity to the original, I was troubled by the character of Joi (Ana de Armas) in particular. The rest is for the future and I can't comment on it because I have no idea, and I didn't want to know. "Will you be home in an hour?'"

It fell short of expectations, which had been in the US$45 million to US$50 million range amid strong advance ticket sales and the revered status of 1982's original Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott. It all clicks because director Denis Villeneuve and writers Michael Green and Hampton Fancher make sure every little aspect of this story is crafted with objective and care, making sure nothing is without reason. Throughout the film, I found myself theorizing and analyzing every little detail, not purposefully, but because the film makes you think. "I'm not sure I ever got to that place, but I made a decision to get over that anyway and pretend so". Even if we never see it play out, it's a safe bet that humanity has some problems coming its way.

But Fancher was initially alarmed when he heard who the producers had chosen. 'Who are you with, anyway?' this guys says while stirring. I have invested in this story so much already that there was no way my feelings about the original wouldn't dominate the entire experience. "That's not possible. How did this happen?' Because he worms his way into my life in various ways". Blade Runner 2049, deftly subsides that problem and delivers a wider narrative, much less personal than the original, but crafts it around an entirely more personal character arc. "It's about love, and it's about corruption, it's the perversity of power".

"Let me tell you about the birds and the bees". Does it live in the body?

Villeneuve is referring to the fact that Blade Runner 2049 is an intimate story of Ryan Gosling's character, Officer K, and Villeneuve considered himself to be telling this one tale and not setting up a larger universe. The bones appear human, but they actually belong to a replicant. "And you could wonder about the integrity of that yearning". Here's the barest of summaries: Ryan Gosling stars as K, another L.A. -based Blade Runner tasked with assassinating a certain breed of renegade android (or "Replicant"). Questions like, "What does it mean to have a soul?' and "Can we create a soul?" Sapper is a replicant - aka robot - in hiding, and K is a Blade Runner, a special type of cop whose job it is to "retire" (kill) renegade replicants who have outlived their goal.

This is the Blade Runner question to end all Blade Runner questions, and one that is, wisely, still not answered in Blade Runner 2049.