I enjoyed this new entry in this franchise. Ryan Gosling plays K, a replicant blade runner, or cop who goes after rogue replicants, in 2049. He’s at the bottom of the cop and replicant heap as he kills his own kind. He’s appropriately as flat as Gosling usually is, a loner who lives with a digital companion, Joi, (an excellent Ana de Armas). But while going after a rogue replicant, here played wonderfully by wrestler Dave Bautista, he discovers something seemingly impossible. His Lieutenant, well done by Robin Wright wants to make this disappear But he’s up against the new creator of replicants, a blind genius/narcissist, entrepreneur/inventor of both food and replicants, Niander. Wallace, played for calm creeps and with too much affection, by Jared Leto,. and his devoted assistant Luv (a chilling Sylvia Hoekes). His trail takes him out to find Rick Deckard (a somewhat disappointing, slower Harrison Ford) and himself. It’s quite a trip through the ecological disaster that is Earth and the inequality of the future. It’s also an interesting discussion of what a human being is and what rights are attendant to all living humans, that is to say, born ‘naturally’ or replicated. . A largely racially divided space as well. The acting is quite good, especially the actresses mentioned above, and Mackenzie Davis as the Doxie/pleasure replicant, Mariette. It was fun to see Edward James Olmos’s retired cop reprised