The sequel to Blade Runner should be best conceived of as some form of modern art. Imagery suborns the plot. Most obvious, of course, is killing unnecessary to the plot. Expensive, pointless killings- excepting as some sort of sick sacrifice to the visual. One murder and a few bombings actually sort of made sense- few other things did.
Perhaps this is a side effect of the American foreign policy trend to demonize everyone we don't like. Inevitably some evil dictator inexplicably kills children, often with military weaponry, at a time when they need military weaponry for actual military targets.
They try to deliver some sort of evil capitalist, but really, they deliver a blind and foolish version of Che.
This guy wouldn't have gotten humanity to nine worlds.
The subtext, which I doubt was thought through very much, reinforced the ideas of r/K and fourth generation warfare. Naturally, no one in Hollywood meant to do this, but their rabbitry leaked all over this movie.
And the destruction of state authority, concomitant with the rise of a cause as more important tracks well with fourth generation warfare. Civilization shall be dispensed with in the name of something or other- all things that will seem very important to the zealots, but the grandchildren of the zealot's generation will wistfully remember tales of air conditioning and indoor plumbing- should these morons get out of hand.
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