A watershed movie in the sci- fi genre

Rating: 9/10 (2 July 2001)

Dark, brooding, fascinating, thoughtful. Although it fills the foreground and drives the plot line, this movie is only provisionally about the hunt for five replicants set sometime in the future. Like all good science fiction, it is really about presenting ideas and new concepts. And in the area of ideas, the director Ridley Scott has set out a virtual banquet table to think about and debate. What might be the possible future impact from environmental pollution, urban decay, overpopulation, multi-racial societies, mass advertising, law enforcement methods - and most of all the moral and ethical question of what separates human clones from human beings. And at the end, the final unresolved question to ponder - was Decker himself a replicant???