Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

The medium (short-film) was my issue, I simply don't care for short films: Just too short to say much or do much. I liked the potential for the characters.

This felt way too short and the plot basically a deus ex machina and the ending more or less leaves the universe how it started.

To pad the review out a lot didn't make sense to me.

Why make a new series of nexus without an expiration date ? It was supposed to be the fail safe ! Asking for trouble.

Why would humans basically go on an all out war hunting these new nexus? Considering blade runners exist for this purpose?

Where are the blade runners, we don't see any and it's supposed to be upto them to take these nexus out ?

Don't they have any kind of way to restrict nexus models coming to earth ? Really ? I assume they would have to come in through some kind of a port ?

Really it was too short and the plot felt way too simple and resolved way too easily but ultimately the story left the world how it began just with different names.

It's 2022. Tyrell is producing the new Nexus 8 series with a natural lifespan. They are indeed more human than human. Human supremacy movements rise up to hunt down Replicants using registry databases. The Replicants rebel against their human masters attacking the databases including the use of an EMP. The resulting blackout leads to the prohibition of Replicant production and the end of the Tyrell Corporation. It's over a decade before Wallace Corp starts manufacturing a new breed of Replicants.

This is very much like the animated shorts in Animatrix. It helps paint a picture of this movie universe and fills out some plot elements connecting the original 1982 movie to the upcoming sequel. It taps into the old movie to prepare fans for the new movie. I can't explain why seeing the Pan Am logo feel so exhilarating. This is good for both plot and for stylistic reengagement.

"Life does not mean living." Shin'ichirō Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) in writing and direction; Shūkō Murase (Ergo Proxy) in character design; and Paul Chadeisson (Remember Me - video game) in art, makes these minutes a truly human story. A piece of animation that not only contributes to the universe Blade Runner, but also takes it further, transmitting a great empathy in the struggle to live in the world. All of this in the style that only anime can achieve.

This is by far my most favorite piece of the Blade Runner films.

A great prequel to Blade Runner 2049 that expands the universe well. Visuals are absolutely amazing and adds to the story well. Too bad this one was so short.