Quite possibly the world's best Sci-Fi movie.

Rating: 10/10 (7 June 2005)

"Then we're stupid, and we'll die" Pris says to Roy after he tells her they are the only two andys left. Blade Runner was pulled from the fantastic dystopian sci-fi book entitled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" written by the well-known sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick. The original book is a fantastic read, with detailed imagery, and a truly deep understanding of human nature and perversion. The movie is one of the rare cases in which it is just as superior (if not more) than the book it followed.
Harrison Ford does a fantastic job playing the hardened "Blade Runner" who makes a life of hunting down and killing escaped "skin jobs", "replicants", or in the books case "andys". The new Nexus 6 (brain unit) is a highly superior android virtually identical to a human. These Nexus 6 are not per say evil, but come across as being murderers--this is due to the fact that 1. they have a lack of "empathy", and 2. the are being hunted down like dogs. The term used to label the killing of them isn't "murder", but "retirement".
The movie has brilliant cinematography (some of the best ever) and an unbelievably creative and hyper-real dystopian environment has been created to feature a post-war world that has been seemingly destroyed, (although the cities are bustling with activity). I fear my break-down does no justice to the films superiority...I lack the literary savvy to describe such a great film.
--MR