I am a big fan of the original Blade Runner, as well as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, so of course I had to go see this movie.
I liked the rain and snow, and gloom, reminiscent of the earlier one. The initial scene, with the desolate dead tree, set the dystopian tone. It was certainly appropriate to have the wooden Ryan Gosling play a replicant. The plot was a bit confusing, but the details fit into place eventually. The birth storyline seemed a bit thin, and it lacked the punch of the first one, the “what is human” angle. .