Dark Sci Fi Thriller where Harrison Ford Reluctantly battles a group of Replicants

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 1999)

Blade Runner is based on a Phillip K Dick book set sometime in the future in a world where most of the population are Chinese. Ridley Scott once again uses the look of the sets to set the atmosphere of the movie, Reminiscent of the film alien (which Scott also directed) made three years earler. Harrison Ford is the main good guy called Decker, he is forced out of retirement to hunt down three replicants which are very human looking robots. The Replicant's played by a superb cast have come back to earth to find there maker, brilliant casting allowed the replicants to seem more scary because there were not huge (unlike many baddies in the 80's) but were normal size. Blade Runner looks good, has a great cast and also boasts a great script which asks you the interesting question how do you define what is human. The film ends with with a fantastic struggle between Decker and Roy Batty the main replicant, although the replicant's are the baddies all they wanted was just to live a little bit longer, don't we all.