Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (11 April 2007)

I have watched two Top-250 movies back-to-back and was disappointed by both. Blade Runner is slightly better than The Third Man, which I watched last night and nearly fell asleep. Actually I nearly fell asleep watching BR as well.
The movie takes place in 2019, with an ultra-futuristic and depressing setting. The bleak insight into the future was simply a product of it's time - 1982 saw double-digit unemployment rates, more than 14 percent mortgage rates, and high oil prices.
For a science fiction movie, it certainly moves slowly - though the pacing and rhythm is consistent. They've added a lot of stuff that just didn't fit in - as some have already mentioned, the unicorn in Drecker's dream and the mustached man appearing at the end. The woman who Drecker falls in love with is a distraction as well. The character development was quite poor. I had difficulty rooting for any particular character in this film.
After watching a bad movie the night before, I really wanted to like Blade Runner. Unfortunately, behind all that science fiction action and distraction, is a thin predictable plot. The plot holes and ambiguous scripting doesn't do justice either. But I think the real flaw in BR was that the Replicants resembled actual humans. Therefore it was hard to see them as being artificially created.
Rating: 6.5 of 10