That Villeneuve would go on to be the director who's almost single-handedly reviving that all-too-rare and seemingly extinct sub-genre - sci-fi for smart people - is perhaps, given his background, apt. But to follow 2016's Arrival - which featured Amy Adams as a linguistics professor attempting to communicate with aliens, was nominated for eight Oscars and managed to be equal parts Steven Spielberg and Charlie Kaufman - with the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, 35 years after the original he saw at 14, borders on deus ex machina. Or, put another way, it's almost bad scriptwriting. What were the odds?
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