"Blade Runner Black Out 2022" is a 15-minute animated short film from this year (2017) that is another little promo short film taking place between the original Blade Runner and the new movie. Director is the highly prolific and successful Shinichirô Watanabe, so this is anime style of course. The visual side is probably the best thing about it all here, but I must say I found the story pretty generic and forgettable all in all. No greatness in here at all. I personally preferred the two live action short films by Ridley Scott's son over this one here. It's not disastrously bad or anything and there is even an Oscar nominee as voice actor in here (Olmos), but as a whole the story material just does not stand out whatsoever that I could take it seriously for being part of such a truly famous universe. Character writing was fairly weak too, it's the usual good guy saves helpless girl from bad guys (even if they seem to be officials) and not much later the catastrophe mentioned in the title happens. I give this project a thumbs-down. Watch something else instead.
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
(2017 Video)
It's fine if you love anime I guess
3 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers