The Perfection Rarely Seen On-Screen

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2010)

Many ideas and theories have come from viewers after watching this movie. It came in 1982, long before I was born, a whole decade in fact. And so, I had the pleasure of viewing the "Final Cut" of the film. Ridley Scott's greatest achievement I'll admit. A beautifully dark sci-fi spectacle that works on many levels and provokes so many thoughts you'll find several reasons to love it.
I'll start with the cast, who is incredible. Now that it's been out for a while, many of the actors are now quite well known. Harrison Ford surprised me honestly, being so different from the type of character he usually lays. My favorite role he's ever done. I love Sean Young in the movie, as well as Daryl Hannah. These actors portrayed their characters so excellently I could quite possibly never get tired of it. The list is nearly endless; Edward James Olmos, James Hong, and Rutager Hayer as Roy, my favorite character in it all. The way the story flows, it starts us off believing the Replicants are devious and cold hearted machines, as you might discern in that opening murder scene. But as the story continues you will realize that is far from the actual plot at all. By the time it's over; don't be surprised if you feel Deckard is the actual antagonist instead of the initial speculation. This is not the lone-cop, gun-slinger, film, by far.
And the look of the film, it's just remarkable. The lighting creates a very dark and gloomy atmosphere. That's one aspect in itself for which many like myself can love it. The cinematography is just exhilarating, a dirty world populated with silhouettes and a rather dystopia-like vision of our future. And the very stirring part of it all that is wasn't all that fictional of a world to envision. That story took place in 2019, and it's now in 2010, and yet watching it I felt like it was a future Earth might is still very susceptible too. Themes of pollution, over-population, among so many other things within these magnificent shots, it probably prompts most the loss of humanity that the advent of technology brings. There's just no way to watch "Blade Runner" and receive no feeling from it. My first viewing of it lead me to believe it was simply a well told story. But it will do more after each view, so with that said definitely see the "the Final Cut".