My take on the movie - and the original is my favourite of all time - is that it's not long enough.
There's too many questions and plot-holes, though the plot is excellent. Or at least the basic premise is and allows enough scope to explain why Deckard would still be alive in 2049, and the way the replicants changed in the intervening years. That was a stroke of genius and kept the audience guessing throughout.
Stylistically, it's absolutely spot on - flawlessly faithful from a visual point of view.
I love the costumes, the details in the architecture, design, technology and so on.
For the first 30-40 minutes it feels like a tribute film to the original - and that's no bad thing when you're tackling a cult classic. The cult classic.
The sound leaves a little to desire : I lost three, maybe four lines of dialogue because the speech was muffled. One of them was repeated, which made me think it may be deliberate, as if to ramp up the nihilism in this dystopian smogfest of a city, but I don't know .. especially when the little captions reading "Los Angeles" and the like were so bloody small as to be illegible without using that zoomy photographic gadget from the first film
I liked the music.
It was in keeping and yet more. A little bombastic when needed, which was a welcome change of pace, but again faithful to Vangelis' vision.
The questions I have revolve mainly around the antagonist, played by Jared Lato.
Also about a scene late on involving a chase with the flying cars - that felt too easy to me.
Plus the final showdown was a little bit lame.
I came out of there happy with the canon being respected but wanting more by way of explanation and expansion.
I hope there's a director's cut with another hour or so.
I want to know more about Wallace, about Luv, about the girl behind the glass, about those memories .. I just want more.