Jeez, can't we just bury this one?

Rating: 4/10 (16 July 1999)

Some things just don't age well: computer graphics, self-consciously hip visions of the future, and Vangelis. (Whatever happened to him?) "Blade Runner" has them all - indeed, it consists of scarcely anything else. -It's not just that it's dated. Even in 1982, it had portentous narration, moved at a snail's pace, and featured characters too world-weary to care about themselves, much less allow us to care about them. In 1982 we could be forgiven for thinking that it was pretty but empty. Now we know it's just empty.