This is an incredibly literal adaptation of the novel, sometimes line by line, and to my surprise, it works very well. Maybe Jodorowsky and co. were trying doo too much with it and ended up failing miserably for it.
The only gripe I have with it are the aesthetics regarding the sets and the music. With 2049, Villeneuve was excused of his minimalist tendencies given the futuristic industrial context and source material. But here one would hope for more imaginative…