One of the greatest movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (31 March 2000)

It grieves me a little to read some of the other comments about this movie. That it is dated and that other movies like the Matrix blow it away. It is true that the Matrix is a great movie, but the things that set Blade Runner apart from other science fiction movies is the writing, it's sophistication and complexity, the film-nor style and cinematography which are more than brilliant, the acting which is superb, and the musical score which is mesmerizing. All of these things make Blade Runner not only the best science fiction movie ever, but one of the best movies ever made. The interaction between humans and androids leaves us contemplating what it means to be human. The development of everyone in this movie is way beyond any other character development in any science fiction movie ever made. Deckard's shallow, lonely existence, an android that believes she is human and can fall in love. Pleasure androids that show more loyalty and humanity than any human, robotic engineers that can show love for their creations, and warrior androids that care so much about life that they would risk everything for longevity, and in the end let their hated hunter live just for the sake of life itself, "More Human Than Human". This movie is a work of American art, to look at it in terms of just special effects does it a great injustice and leads me to believe that those who find it not so good, don't really know anything at all about science fiction or what makes a great film. But then again all of this is just "tears in the rain".