A blessed marriage of sci-fi & film noire...

Rating: 10/10 (14 August 2001)

...is the only way I can describe this film. This film is near the top of my personal favorites list. It is both beautiful and frightening, and if you've witnessed the film's final confrontation between Roy (Hauer) and Deckard (Ford), you will understand. While important not only for its groundbreaking effects and genre twisting conceptual design, the film is much more than a pretty face.
As we tumble further into the century of the film's setting, Blade Runner gains more relevance with each step we find ourselves inexplicably taking. If you haven't yet seen the film, do. If you have, see it again. Upon the film's release in 1982, Ridley Scott's 2019 Los Angeles seemed strange...more fantastic than prophetic. In 2001, we find ourselves in the great dawn of Scott's vision.
While this is hardly the proper forum for discussion of the film, it is important to note that Blade Runner is much more than a well made science fiction motion picture. It is that and much more. My greatest wish is that the film would be re-released in theatres next year, on its 20th anniversary. In a time when scientists are racing to create the first perfect clone (just as their great grandfathers raced to create the atomic bomb), Blade Runner stands out as a prophetic warning not only to the hundreds of scientists working under veils of secrecy, but as a warning to each and every one of us as human beings.