One of my favorites.

Rating: Null/10 (8 February 2000)

I have seen both versions of Blade Runner and I can't decide which one I like better, though I'm leaning more toward the Director's Cut if only for the ending. The studio bosses wanted a more upbeat ending and thought audiences wouldn't "get it." Maybe they were right, but in any case, I thought it was a wonderful atmospheric film about a rather pessimistic, some say realistic, look into the future. The Los Angeles of 2019 is dark and depressing, with requisite technical advances, but a society that is fragmented and marginalized. Ridley Scott is great at affecting these atmospheric moods in his films. With Blade Runner he outdoes himself. Harrison Ford is a sort of bounty hunter of renegade androids, and he must hunt down 4 Replicants at large in LA who have come to seek extended life. The reason I like this one is because it pulls the viewer in to its world, and the characters and performances hold you there. Especially Rutger Hauer who steals the show.