10 Sci-Fi Movie Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About Them

Blade Runner 2049 took us forwards again to Ridley Scott's moody future Earth in 2017, with director Denis Villeneuve bringing what has rapidly become his trademark visual sci-fi flair to the project. The film follows replicant K (Ryan Gosling), a blade runner who "retires" other replicants who are clinging on to life beyond their prime.

However, K's investigation into evidence of a replicant birth takes him down a winding metaphysical path that calls into question whether he was made or born, and leads to an existentially-defining encounter with the first film's protagonist Deckard (Harrison Ford).

K ultimately discovers he's not Deckard's son, but holds the memories of -- and therefore the key to finding -- the latter's real daughter. Thus, K helps Deckard meet his daughter for the first time, and rests outside the building, thoroughly beaten and bloody. But, in these, the film's final moments, is he experiencing a moment of peace, in-keeping with the film's emotional and thematic crescendo, or is he succumbing to death?

He's been messed up something rotten, but we know replicants are hardier than that. Either way though, he's royally f*cked. K has found out he’s not real, his digital girlfriend Joi (Ana de Armas) has been destroyed and he’s now left as a fugitive with no home and no job. Yaaaay!