Denis Villeneuve is the most over-hyped waste of time director in the last few years. The Blade Runner sequel was "meh". Never trust a Frenchman. I know on films like this the director doesn't really have that much say anyway though. So to think a bunch of Hollywood execs would give you anything without at least a woke underlying message would be naive. At least sometimes they still give you a good story, just with an improbable cast of diverse geniuses to save the day.