Hmmm..... not at all what I expected, which was disappointing. A futuristic journey into the world of AI... (artificial intelligence) Deckard (Harrison Ford), a bounty hunter, specializing in the extermination (retiring) of androids (replicants) comes out of retirement for a final mission.. His most difficult one yet. Directed by Ridley Scott, one of my personal favorites I might add.. and a surprising, but stellar performance by Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah is what made this movie easier to swallow. I found it slow moving, I was somewhat bored. I'm not saying it was a bad film, it's just not my thing. It made the top 100, so I assume some people love it... 3 eggs, that's all I can do for this one. "see you at the movies!"
This is one of my all time favorites. I think you really have to dig the genre and see this film several times for the layers to show themselves. Let's not forget the nuanced performance of Sean Young, the unknowing replicant. All very good performances and excellent effects for the early 80's.
ReplyDeleteA lot depends on which cut you've seen of this film. The one released originally in theaters had an added voice over and the happy open ending. The re-release drops the voice over and throws in a dream of a unicorn (which Scott lifted from his earlier film "Legend"). The Directors cut is the superior version of the three..I also left out the European version..cause, well, fuck'em. Anyway, Bladerunner has been seen in recent years as a future-noir film. It also falls into the not so shiny view of the future that started popping up in sci-fi in the 70's : Think Silent Running and Soylent Green as opposed to 2001 and THX-1138. Basically it is an existential detective film about a man looking for his own humanity and only finds it when he shown humanity by an artificial being....ah Lust for Lfe. Is this movie one of the best 100, not on my list but probably on a lot of people's.
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