Blade Runner (1982)

Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos, William Sanderson, Brion James,
Certificate: 15
Genre: Sci Fi, Thriller, Crime
Awards: None

Rick Deckard (Ford) is a retired blade runner - a man who kills humanlike creations called replicants   - who is pulled back into the job when five replicants return to earth where they are banned. His job is to find these replicants and "retire" them. The replicants are on earth to find their creator and demand more life.

The sets for Blade Runner have to be admired for giving the film the right tone even thirty years later. It gives a picture of a perfect dystopia (if dystopia can be called perfect). Everything feels gloomy and it feels like the world as just given up. Although watching the film now the world may seem old fashioned, it does not feel fake.

The first time I saw the film, I was lost and felt like the story did not make much sense. Watching it a second time, I can appreciate what the film was trying to convey. Life and death are welded into the story and the film can be perceived in many different ways.

Ridley Scott has said that he is going to make a Blade Runner 2. I don't really think that this is advisable as it will just point out the flaws in the originals set design due to lack of CGI while making the original story rather redundant.

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