Review 118: Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a visually stunning, moody and wonderfully crafted sci fi film, one of Ridley Scott’s best films and

Loosely based on the sci fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. In the year 2019, synthetic humans known as Replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful and shady Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies. When a fugitive quartet of replicants, led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), escape back to Earth, retired “Blade Runner” Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is reluctantly assigned to “retire” them.

The plot sounds simple on the outside, but it’s rich in thought provoking themes and simply fascinating ideas

And really that's the primary theme of Blade Runner: What it means to be Human? The Replicants are bioenginered to look

Ridley Scott's direction is the cinematography is gorgeous and captures the dark, grim atmosphere of the dystopian 2019 LA, the score by Vangelis is moody and atmospheric, the production design is tremendous (the dystopian LA setting the film takes place in is rich with texture and detail and the film just emerces you into that setting), the costumes are terrific, the 

Harrison Ford delivers one of his most understated and underated performances as Rick Deckard. He a very enigmatic character  he’s a man of very few words.

Sean Young delivers a mesmerising performance as replicant Rachael,

Rutger Hauer

Daryl Hannah