This movie is better in every way than the original, from the plot to the performances. Sure, it could have been a few minutes shorter, but the movie's length added to the immersion.
The scene where K finds the toy horse went on forever, but it got more and more intense as it went on, even though the audience knew what was about to happen after a point. The Joi sex scene (threeway?) was surreal and blew Her out of the water with its execution. The final encounter between K and Luv was ing brutally simplistic. Not since Inglorious Basterds have I seen a director attempt to depict strangulation as such a drawn out form of execution.
Bladerunner 2049 is a great movie. It takes the setting and premise from the original and actually tells an interesting story with them. Gosling's performance was perfect. He was more human in this movie than Ford was in the original. Hopefully, the movie does well internationally. This is what the original Bladerunner should have been, because that movie's plot was boring.