Okay, thanks, wanted to make sure it wasn't just me.
I'm still not sure I enjoyed this film, but I certainly appreciate a lot about it. The visuals, its refusal to degenerate into an action film (brave, correct decision), the patience to let the visuals and atmosphere guide the film gently. Some snips near the end and one moment at the midpoint aside, the film was meticulous about taking us from beat to beat in the story and letting us just marinate in the moods it was creating. I'm not sure I would appreciate it on rewatch, but first time through it was nice to bask in it. (One couple, a row behind us and to the left, clearly hated it. The wife said out loud, in a particularly slow section in the 3rd act, "Boooorrinnnnggggg!") I was too enthralled by the visuals and themes to be bored, but I can see how someone hoping for an action film would.
A lot of scenes and elements didn't work for me. The entire intro scene for the head of the company (Wallace?), where he eventually kills his newest model by slicing her across the belly/womb...I have no idea what the point of that scene was. It was weird for the sake of being weird and I thought it kicked the film down a peg. A few others like it did likewise. (It gets well established he's frustrated that his creation can't create life of its own and so isn't, perhaps, truly life to him. The scene was just an awfully ugly, clunky way to reiterate it.)
I thought the replicant army in waiting would play a role in the film, but instead the one-eyed woman and her army is there for one scene and vaporizes. It wasn't clear to me at all that Joe had even left them, or when he did, or why. It probably wanted to be some world building, but it ended up feeling like a sequel hook, or superfluous idea dropped in and discarded.
The film was a little too on the nose at times. The female replicant (the Darth Vader to Wallace's Emperor), telling Joe, "I'm the best one," at the end is one of the few moments to really make me cringe. He gets it. We most certainly get it. Not needed.
Speaking of which, for a film as thematically dense as it was, the opening text seemed very odd. Everything it conveys is explained in the film over the first 20 minutes. Felt like a late add (make me think of Ford's narration in the theatrical cut of Blade Runner). It's never a good sign when a film starts out with text explaining itself, but the film had more confidence in itself after that point than the opening text implied. Thank goodness.
I still don't feel like the whole thing really gels, but it was so visually rich I'll certainly be thinking about it for a while.