Sci-fi depiction of social isolation is all too real

The ‘Blade Runner’ sequel might be fanciful in imagining a future without mobile phones but its portrayal of loneliness is bone-chillingly real. We really are living on a lonely planet, writes Clodagh Finn

THE disappointing box office receipts paint a different picture, but the Blade Runner sequel simply mesmerises for much of its two hours and 43 minutes — quite a feat in cinematic terms.

It’s a boldly imagined visual odyssey that whisks you off into the middle of the century in a kind of hallucinogenic time-ship.