Blade Runner 2049
55% overall with a pattern worth knowing: Blade Runner 2049 opens well and fades. Early-round voters favor it; the films it faces in finals tend not to. As beautiful as studio sci-fi gets, and oddly hard to love — Deakins shoots every frame like it belongs in a gallery, while the film keeps its audience at arm's length on purpose. It earns respect more easily than affection, which is a strange place for a blockbuster to live.
Synopsis
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
61% to 51% to 46%. The decline is steady rather than sudden — Blade Runner 2049 doesn't collapse, it gradually meets its match. The films at the top of the bracket are a different class.
Against Dune, the margin is razor-thin: 50%. The most contested matchup in Blade Runner 2049's record. Aliens is the easy matchup at 71%. The Terminator is the kryptonite at 33%. The gap between best and worst opponent says a lot about what Blade Runner 2049 can and can't handle.
Best of Denis Villeneuve is Blade Runner 2049's bracket: it clears the early rounds consistently but meets its ceiling in the final against Dune: Part Two (44%).
In Denis Villeneuve's filmography, Blade Runner 2049 ranks #4 of 8. Dune: Part Two leads at 77%; Enemy at 6% trails.
#4 of 8 in Best of Denis Villeneuve.
Where should it rank? Cast your vote.
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
BingeBracket ranks films through head-to-head matchups in 8-film brackets — no star ratings, no reviews, just direct comparison. Browse tournaments, try Discovery mode, or explore the leaderboards. You can also .