A Dystopian Masterpiece that stands up 30 years after its original release.

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2017)

Based (very loosely) on Philip K Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", Blade Runner concerns Rick Deckard(Harrison Ford), a retired cop who is yanked out of retirement when 6 rogue androids, called replicants, make it from an off-world colony into 21st Century Los Angelos. Their crime: wanting to be human.
So much about this film is iconic: the dystopian cityscapes, the score by Vangelis, the 'tears in the rain' speech, adlibbed by Rutger Hauer, who plays Roy Batty, the leader of the band of Replicants who tries to go to the Tyrell Corporation(the company that makes Replicants) in a desperate gamble to prolong their life-span, the list goes on and on. Blade Runner, though a commercial failure during its initial release, was re-evaluated and rightfully proclaimed one of the all-time greatest Sci-fi movies. The film is extremely slow-moving, but never boring and uninvolving, and the story, while a tad scarce makes up for it in atmosphere and character development. Very rarely has a movie been made with such skill, and the sets of 2019 L.A. are a collaborative knockout. Blade Runner has become one of the most influential movies in the last 3 decades, inspiring movies, writers, and videogames alike, and in 1993, it was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress' national film registry. Though Philip K. Dick has been gone since 1986, his legacy continues to this very day, and Blade Runner is definitely one of the prime reasons for that.