Blade Crawler

Rating: 5/10 (23 February 2006)

My favourite movie genre is science fiction. The reason for it is because after every time I watch a great sci-fi film, it'll always leave me with a new theoretical concept to think about after the movie's over. I'll admire the film-maker's creativity and excellent ideas with these well-built sets.
I had very high expectations for Blade Runner, it had an early 80s Harrison Ford and an interesting concept that I read from a few brief plot summaries. Unfortunately for me, this was the most disappointing film that I've ever seen.
The film's main plot is that there are "Replicants", clones that were in off-world colonies (now illegal after a mutiny), that land in a very dark futuristic version of Los Angeles. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a Blade Runner, his job is to kill or "retire" these six Replicants. Rutger Hauer plays Roy Batty, the leader of the Replicants that landed on Earth. The feel of the film is a very dark, a gloomy vision of the future.
I loved Harrison Ford's performance as Indiana Jones and Han Solo is one of my favourite movie characters of all-time but he didn't display any of his acting talent in Blade Runner. He doesn't show any emotions at all and he was just annoying. The rest of the cast wasn't any better except for Rutger Hauer. I liked the way he spoke in this film and his speech at the end was great (I won't deny that).
Another of my major complaints is that the pacing of the film is so unnecessarily slow. It just lagged on, it felt as it was three and half hours long when it was just over two hours. They are so many scenes that could've been cut, especially the numerous montages of Deckard driving through the city.
The film is not all bad though. The sets are very original and the cinematography really stands out. The score is great, I really loved the music at the ending credits that gave it a science fiction feel.
Overall, I really hated this film. There is a lot of aspects of it that I just despised but I do praise all the work that was done to build all these amazing sets. The ending to me, didn't make any sense at all and the bad acting made me stop caring about the characters. Also, the slow pacing just made the film completely uninteresting. I just wanted it to end.
My rating : 5/10  I have seen it twice because many say it deserves more than one viewing and it received a 4/10 on my first viewing.