I disagree. While challenging and a definite technical marvel these issues are relatively deterministic based around the amount of resources a movie has to throw at effects, cinematography and art direction.

I feel pacing is the hardest thing to accomplish, and a lot of times it's the luck of the draw.

Ridley scott in general, his movies have below average pacing. He got lucky one time with Gladiator.

Blade runner is great, I love it. But I can't deny, among all of cinema and among ridley scotts filmography, Blade runner has pretty horrible pacing.