The world does not need another review of this extraordinary movie but here goes anyway

Rating: 10/10 (26 October 2006)

Decker (Harrison Ford) lives in 2019 Los Angeles. He is a mostly retired blade runner, that is, a person who hunts down replicants and eliminates them. Replicants are manufactured human beings that do work on the "off colonies" of far space that regular human beings have populated, too. Replicants, who are vital in the colonies, are forbidden to come to planet earth. If they do, they are tracked down and killed. Most of them have superior physical powers but lack problem solving and reasoning skills and have few emotions. Although Decker wants to be retired, a particularly lethal group of replicants manages to come to earth and the big boss police chief makes it clear to Decker that he is needed. Or else. Decker begins to hunt down the four replicants on the loose, just as he meets a lady named Rachel, who may be a replicant, too, and a very pretty one. Is there really a world of difference between humans and replicants? What have we really done to ourselves and our civilization by making these "almost" human beings? This is one of the greatest movies of all time. The story is taken from a work by Philip K. Dick and is superior science fiction. Ford embodies the morally confused but determined blade runner very well. The other actors, especially Rutger Hauer and Sean Young, do fine work, too. However, the style of the film is the movie's greatest asset. The seamy modern world that Ridley Scott and his companions have created is beyond wonderful. From the flying transport machines that bark out advertisements to the people below to the decayed buildings from another era, this is a world one has to see to appreciate. If you have never seen this film, don't walk to the nearest video store or library. Run at top speed and wrestle the film out of someone else's hands, if you have to. This is a piece of celluloid that will be studied for ages to come.