A beautiful but hollow picture...

Rating: 5/10 (2 July 2007)

Whereas most science fiction films often have trouble creating believable settings for their stories, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is something of an opposite. Visually it's a beautiful piece of cinema, but the plot and characters all seem to lack any kind of emotion.
Add this to the film's rather relaxed pace and you have a film where after the first 15 minutes of watching special-effects you star peaking at your watch to see how much longer is it gonna take until something happens. The problem of the plot isn't so much that it doesn't work, but it's execution is just so miss-mashed with everything else in the film that it becomes tiresome to follow.
The fact that everything about the film would make you wanna believe it's an action-movie doesn't help either. In the end the film is astonishingly beautiful science-fiction drama with a plot you couldn't care less about.
Both Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford have seen better days.