Absolute visual mastery, and narratively feels a bit more focused on masculinity and what it means to be a man, rather than what it means to be human, than the first. The slight change in direction narratively is definitely needed as it’s translated to another century - but does not necessarily make it better.

It really exists on its own right to the original, as rightfully relevant and significant in different ways.

Certain plot elements and characters do feel like they fall off at points and get distracted away from, which keeps me from being in as much amazement as I am with the original. 

It is quite fascinating the meta-loop that this film stands in, acting as a symbol of film-bro-hood, while also deconstructing manhood and what it means to be a man, if anything. Leave it up to the dudes to see right past a layer of a piece of media that critiques them.