Replicants were too human

Rating: 7/10 (21 March 2006)

Maybe I have too much reference material to allow me to enjoy this movie as everyone else has, being that I watched this in 2006 instead of 1982. Maybe in 1982 this movie would have been a lot better, but in 1982 I was too young to watch this movie let alone understand anything about it. The concept was a good one, that of life like robots, A.I., cyborgs, replicants, etc. but in this day an age that story has been told a million times in a million different ways (see A.I., Terminator 1-3, Matrix, Space Odessey 2010, I,Robot, etc.) Bladerunner was interesting and distinct from the standpoint that these robots only wanted to stay alive longer than the 4 years they were designed to. The movie as a whole was alright, I just couldn't get acclimated to the idea that these robots were too life-like. They not only displayed feelings, but they had feelings for each other, they feared death, they displayed panic, passion, and they sweat and cried. But what really took the cake was Deckard (Harrison Ford) sleeping with and ultimately falling in love with what he KNEW to be a robot, and likewise she fell in love with him. That was a bit much.