Riddley Scott's best and the 2nd best Sci-fi movie of all time

Rating: Null/10 (10 October 1999)

In this movie Riddley Scott gives a lesson in futuristic film-noir genre. The first open sequence of the city is breathtaking, the flames, the buildings, specially Tyrell Corporation, all of this, brilliantly conducted by Vangelis soundtrack. To talk about this movie is to talk about the 3 essencial questions that the Human Being asks himself: "Where do I come from? Where will I go? How long have I got left?". This gives the movie it's philosofical perspective. The artifial world and the human specie are placed in this movie to show how dangerous it can get to "play God". The "replicants" are, supposedly, emocionally inexperient, flaw that is only possible to fix by memory implants. The end lines for Rutger Hauer brilliant performance prooves his humanity, perhaps this is the true theme of the movie: humanity, where does it starts, where does it ends, what boundries surround it and defines the human being? "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe", this is one of the most powerful moments of the entire film, the memories as builders of his emotions, his love for life...where is the boundry? The boundry that separates us from "replicants". Maybe life is just a constant quest for answers, those wich would reveal the meaning of life, death and our dawn. "Blade Runner" represents all of this brilliantly, and at the same time shows us a future, a dark and destructed future. Harrison Ford is excelent in the part of detective Deckard, a man in search of answers to his own questions, seeking those who threaten the human specie. During the movie he talks severall times about how "blade runners" musn't feel anything for the non-humans, but what better diplay of humanity than the one given by Rutger Hauer (Roy)? This is my 2nd favourite Sci-Fi movie of all time, being "2001, A Space Odyssey" the first.

Wallace