Director's Cut, please

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2000)

I voted only for the director's cut version. The original release is not half as good with the completely unnecessary narrative and the insipid happy-go-lucky ending. Set well into the 3rd millennium, a bunch of robots, Replicants return to Earth, where they're not allowed under penalty of death. Ford plays a tired, worn Blade Runner, a person who hunts the replicants down and kills them. Brilliant, dark with a calm that almost makes it a sci-fi drama rather than action. The question that drives the film is: is Deckard (Ford) a Replicant himself? The upcoming sequel with tell...