"He say you Brade Runnah, Mistah Deckah!"

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2008)

Phew! Looks like I got out of L.A. just in time.
What can I say about this gem that hasn't been said before? I'll try, nevertheless. How about -- THE science-fiction masterpiece against which all others have to be measured; a film that, remarkably, just seems to get better with each successive viewing. Having said that, I do have two comments/questions that (heaven forbid) appear to be the only major gaffes in an otherwise wonderous achievement in film-making.
1. The four year lifespan is winding down for our visiting renegade androids. They have only scant hours in their brief lives remaining to them. Why then is it an obsession with the paranoid authorities that these "elderly replicants" be located and retired post haste?
2. In the alternate ending Deckard and Rachel drive off into an idyllic paradise that is apparently just outside Los Angeles. Here I question what prevents the residents of contaminated, polluted L.A. from hopping on their bicycles or into their ancient Chrysler Imperials, etc., abandoning their hellish city and following Deckard and Rachel's tracks to the mountain paradise of Big Bear, or whatever destination it may be, that our hero and his replicant heroine flee?
Are these just goofs or have I missed something here? After all I've only seen the film 5-6 times.