bonafide cyber techno masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2002)

Just as Francis Ford Coppola created a benchmark of modern cinema history in making "Apocalypse Now," Ridley Scott welded his initials into the minds of cinemagoers with his equally epic work "Blade Runner." The locations and settings for both these films powerfully evoke an operatic theatre of operations. Different visions of distopia. Accomplished, basically flawless filmaking allows Ridley Scott to bring a fascinating tale (like Apocalyse Now, loosely based on a novel) to impress the audience. We are still impressed. A Science Fiction classic, of near future realities.
Like Coppola, Scott could not resist rehashing his masterpiece. The director's cut of Blade Runner is certainly a fine film. For buffs, it allows for the possibility of Deckard actually being a replicant, as the Chinese Style trenchcoated origami expert makes the unicorn, that appears in Deckard's dreams, implying they may be recorded memories only. Blade Runner is ultimately, a brutal celebration of life. A film to last several centuries.