Flawed by Casting Harrison Ford as Deckerd

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2003)

Harrison Ford is one of those actors whose emotions run the gamut from A to B. In a role that requires true depth of character, such as Deckerd in Blade Runner, he's way out of his league. I don't believe him as Rick Deckerd, I don't believe that his Deckerd is able to think deeply about his situation, I don't believe that he's capable of loving Rachel. He's just a damp washrag on screen, as he is in most of his roles.
Rutger Hauer, on the other hand, never had a better role. His Roy Batty is thoughtful, playful, poetic, angry, loving, gentle, fierce, despondent, resigned, awed, and forgiving.
Nevertheless, I love this film, for everything else in it besides Harrison Ford. Besides, Ford is SO bland he never gets in the way of my imagining what the acting would have been like if a good actor was playing Rick Deckerd.