I finally saw it !!

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2000)

I wanted to see Blade Runner for a very, very long time. I bought 'Blade Runner The Game' several years ago, and for a very long time it was my favorite game. I loved the atmosphere, and the feel the game had. I also had the soundtrack by Vangelis in my possession for quite some time. I was addicted to Blade Runner even though i never seen the film.
Well tonight that changed. I saw it, i loved it. It lived up to all my expectations. I loved the storyline, and the atmosphere, the futuristic film noir presentation of the movie. I recognised a lot from the game, and almost the whole soundtrack comes back in the film. I was very happy that 'Memories Of Green' was in the movie, at a point where Deckard and Rachel are in Deckard's appartement. Memories of Green is my favorite song of the soundtrack. It has just the right feel, the sollitude that Deckard feels in this forsaken, lonely place called Earth.
The only downpoint in the movie is that it only takes 112 minutes. The characters could have had so much more depth if only there was more time to explain. For example, in the game the main character starts to question his own identity. Am i a replicant, or a human. At one point in the movie i thought Deckard had the same feeling, but you never got to see a whole lot of who Deckard really was. So you could never really fully understand his feelings or motives. Which i feel is such a shame.
I'm also a little proud seeing this movie. I'm dutch, and seeing Rutger Hauer (also dutch) perform in the way that he does makes me very proud to see that this little country can deliver such acting greatness. For me Roy Batty was his best part ever, the way he playes this angry replicant is so cool.
Blade Runner isn't just a sience fiction movie. It has such a great stroyline, it shows that being alive is a blessing, not a drag. That you should be glad with what you have, no matter how bad the world is, or how lonely you are.
Blade Runner is in my opinion one of the best movies ever made (if not the best). It's one of those films you want to see over and over again.