Blade Runner
BLADE RUNNER (1982) is director Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece; a huge influence on both movies and popular culture as a whole, a nightmarish vision of the future, a triumph of world building, lighting, and sound design with still excellent looking special effects and also it's a total bore. Set in the grimy, rain-soaked streets of a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles, Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a weary ex-cop forced back into his old job as a 'Blade Runner', assigned to hunt down and 'retire' renegade androids known as replicants, including their inspirational leader, Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer). Way too slow and featuring an unconvincing love story, the amoral Deckard is a singularly uninteresting character, who manages to be completely devoid of anything approaching charisma, something of an achievement from the man who was Han Solo and Indiana Jones. Multiple cuts of the movie have ruined the ambiguity of the original theatrical release which is still the definitive version.
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