My favorite movie! See the Director's Cut-Please!

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 1999)

For me to comment on how great this film is and why I love it so much would require two sets of hands and another lifetime, which ironically is one of the major themes of "Blade Runner".
Let's start by saying it revolutionized sci-fi. What "Star Wars" did for the genre "Blade Runner" undid. It shows a dirty, ugly future much closer to the one we are approaching than any idealized version of the 21st century. Go to any major city street and it will look a lot more like "Blade Runner" Los Angeles than any other cityscape presented in sci-fi.
Rutger Hauer gives the performance of a lifetime as Roy Batty. He is one of the greatest villains the movies have presented, right up there with Hopper in "Blue Velvet", Fonda in "Once Upon a Time in The West", or Darth Vader. The difference is Roy Batty is a sympathetic character who we as the audience come to realize is not really the bad guy. His intentions are completely understandable, even if the means to his end are not justifiable. His speech at the end of the film is the most memorable moment in the movie.
Ridley Scott, the director, is a genius. That's all I'll say about that.
Harrison Ford comes out of his superhero mode right after "Raiders" and "Empire" and plays a character he has rarely touched on before or since. Deckard is so unlike the usual Harrison Ford character, but he winds up being one of his best performances (though I'm partial to Indy in "Raiders", my other favorite movie). The important thing about Deckard is his sense of morality, or lack there of. You will see a metamorphosis unlike you may have thought Harrison Ford capable of.
Warning: When the movie is over, remember to pick your jaw up off the floor, cause if you have any appreciation of movie genius, that's where your jaw will wind up. The film is breathtaking in it's visual beauty and mind boggling in it's commentary on humanity. I could explain it, but there is not enough time in the world.
Please be sure to pick up the Director's Cut. It is literally a different movie than the one you may have seen prior to 1994. Not only different, but better by leaps and bounds.
If I haven't said it already, I'll say it again: This is my favorite movie and one of the all time greatest! See it several times, cause you can't take it all in on one viewing.