Blade Runner 2049 Review: 8 Ups & 2 Downs

7. It's Full Of Surprises

To call Blade Runner 2049 "surprising" is an understatement. In its opening moments all the way through to its finale, the film serves up a number of unexpected revelations, and a large part of the credit goes to Warner Bros' marketing department for refusing to give the game away in trailers, as so many "risky" tentpole films tend to.

Instead, they went in completely the other direction, deliberately misrepresenting a number of scenes, both visually and contextually, from how they appear in the final film. It's a shame more movies don't do it, because the film's jaw-dropping power is enhanced so much by that feeling that anything can happen (and it does, frequently).

Whatever you think you know about the movie going in, there's a good chance you're going to be wrong about a lot of it, and that's incredibly refreshing.