Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049: masterpiece or flop?

For a man who just directed a $155-million flop, Denis Villeneuve was remarkably calm.
On the phone from Los Angeles last week, the Quebec director was philosophical about the highs and lows of his latest film, Blade Runner 2049.
Villeneuve has been hailed as an artistic genius in response to his nearly three-hour epic, which expands on the iconic vision of Ridley Scott’s 1982 original, a dystopian reverie starring Harrison Ford as a state-sanctioned hunter of android “replicants.&rd