Visionary, bloody clever and timeless

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2000)

It's remarkable how this film, like Kubrick's 2001, seems not to age a bit. Ridley Scott choosed so well the technical ways to show a future world that looking at it fifteen or so years later doesn't give the slicest impression of a "pre-digital" film, on the contrary: it still gives the impression of state-of-the-art visual work.
A strong story (thanks to K. Dick' mastery), an intelligent adaptation, a very original treatment, a great sense of suspense, an extraordinary sobriety contrasting with its imaginary richness, and a luxurious and visionary visual splendor makes this film one of my all-time favorites, in both its versions.
Only one flaw to my sense, and it's a matter of taste: Vangelis' pompous music (I'm allergic).
I wonder sometimes how Scott, who was able to make "The Duellists", "Blade Runner" and "Alien", could later on give us crap like "1492"... Well, since I saw the disappointing "Mission to mars", "The Frighteners" and "Alien: resurrection" from my beloved De Palma, Jackson and Jeunet, I'll have to consider that being a great director can't lead everyone to be Stanley Kubrick in terms of consistency... Too bad.